[oe] [RFC][PATCH] module-base.bbclass: keep PR if MACHINE_KERNEL_PR is not set

[Eric Bénard]

Le 14/05/2010 19:34, Koen Kooi a écrit :
> On 14-05-10 19:17, Eric Bénard wrote:
>> Le 14/05/2010 17:52, Koen Kooi a écrit :
>>> Op 14 mei 2010, om 17:10 heeft Eric Bénard het volgende geschreven:
>>>> I was told you are the person to contact about MACHINE_KERNEL_PR so
>>>> may you please have a look to the patch below - also available here :
>>>> http://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/2012/
>>>>
>>>> Actually, when compiling modules (out of tree), we loose PR if
>>>> MACHINE_KERNEL_PR is not set.
>>>
>>> I don't believe that when MACHINE_KERNEL_PR isn't set people care
>>> about PR.
>>>
>> Does that mean that policy is that MACHINE_KERNEL_PR should be set for
>> every machine ?
>> If yes, maybe this should be added in the doc.
>
> IMO yes, but some people were against it. Either their kernel never
> changes or they don't care about out-of-tree modules breaking on kernel
> changes.
>
so why not setting r0 as a default in bitbake.conf as a compromise ?

Eric