[oe] Contents of the "origin/ulf/linux-2.6.30.2" branch. Help with testing wanted.

[Phil Blundell]

On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 14:33 +0200, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> Dnia wtorek, 11 sierpnia 2009 o 20:55:00 Ulf Samuelsson napisał(a):
> > I introduced the possibility to build linux using
> > make <board>_defconfig, instead of using a
> > defconfig in a board directory under linux.
> > LINUX26_DEFCONFIG needs to be defined.
> 
> Interesting, will check. I see a problem anyway because linux_*.bb 
> recipes by default use defconfig as part of SRC_URI. But we can use 
> empty file to satisfy it.

We've tried this kind of thing before on various platforms and it
generally seems to be a losing proposition.  Even if your kernel sources
are targetting just a single MACHINE, the kernel isn't quite modular
enough yet that you can truly have a "one size fits all" configuration
to suit all DISTROs.

Also, if you are relying on the defconfig from upstream, any
configuration change at all requires that you either patch it, or
re-issue the upstream tarball.  Neither of those are as convenient as
just editing the defconfig locally in OE.

So, in general, I think you're probably better off sticking with the
"defconfig in FILESDIR" paradigm.  That's not to say I'm completely
opposed to adding the option to use the one from upstream, but I think
you would need to be a bit careful about where you use it.

p.