[oe] [RFC] linux 2.6.36: upgrade to 2.6.36.2

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2011/1/5 Marcin Juszkiewicz <marcin at juszkiewicz.com.pl>:
> Dnia środa, 5 stycznia 2011 o 14:51:35 Frans Meulenbroeks napisał(a):
>> > I think that stable kernel updates should be applied without asking - but
>> > if there are some patches for some machines in recipe then it needs to
>> > be checked does it patch/build before pushing update.
>
>> There are. Both systems mentioned above have patches.
>> I've no idea if they will remain to apply after moving to .2. Of
>> course I can verify that, but if they fail I am not too sure if I can
>> fix things. They are machines that I do not have.
>
> for mach in machine1 machine2;do MACHINE=$mach bitbake -b linux_2.6.36.bb -
> cpatch;done
>
> This will test does patches apply. If they are then push change, if they not
> then check why - maybe they contain patches from stable update (edit them
> then)>
>> Thinking of it, probably it is better to create a 2.6.36.2 recipe with
>> DP = -1 for all but my board and leave it to the mx31ads and ts72xx
>> machines to move to that recipe when they see fit.
>
> Why not linux-yourmachine_2.6.36.2.bb then? linux_BASE_VER.bb recipes were
> created to limit amount of kernel recipes, not to enlarge it.

linux-yourmachine_2.6.36.2.bb also enlarges the number of recipes.
And as a policy we could decide to phase out e.g. 2.6.32.1 after a while.

Anyway, the topic is moot as I saw that today 2.6.37 was released so
since I have to take a leap anyway, I'll probably go to that version.

Frans.