Re: kernel manual: confusing coverage of FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend

[Joe MacDonald <Joe_MacDonald@mentor.com>]

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[[yocto] kernel manual: confusing coverage of FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend] On 15.02.25 (Wed 03:54) Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> 
>   minor quibble about kernel dev manual -- section 2.2.1, "creating
> the append file", uses the example of:
> 
>  FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}:"
> 
> while section 2.2.3 uses:
> 
>  FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:"
> 
> both sections kind of implying that that's the way to do it, without
> making it clear that *either* way works as long as the variable
> prepend matches up with the directory name.
> 
>   both ways are correct, of course, but the wording is a bit
> confusing.

It's probably worth changing the latter reference to match the former.
Both work but with any new recipes (at least in the layers I maintain)
the preference is to use the former for clarity as well as faster
lookups.

-J.

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