[oe] RFC: handling of machine/distro features stuff

[Marcin Juszkiewicz]

Dnia niedziela, 29 października 2006 15:28, Marcin Juszkiewicz napisał:
> Currently OpenEmbedded use overrides based on DISTRO, MACHINE,
> TARGET_ARCH and few others. I want to suggest start of using also
> {MACHINE,DISTRO}_FEATURES because we have some stuff in metadata which
> make sense only on some targets only - for example madwifi is limited
> to PCI devices only.

Holger 'zecke' Freyther pointed me to MacPorts and their 'variants'. After 
looking at them I think that those are other kind of our overrides.

Which points me to this idea: how about adding COMBINED_FEATURES into 
overrides? I do not know will it slow down BitBake or make metadata bit 
more ugly but it is kind of solution.

do_configure() {
	do something
}

do_configure_pci() {
	do something
	do something PCI related
}

would solve wpa-supplicant example. 

What do you think?

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