From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from 64.mail-out.ovh.net ([91.121.185.65]) by linuxtogo.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OD1Sd-0003lU-Th for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 14 May 2010 22:26:20 +0200 Received: (qmail 17421 invoked by uid 503); 14 May 2010 20:20:27 -0000 Received: from b6.ovh.net (HELO mail30.ha.ovh.net) (213.186.33.56) by 64.mail-out.ovh.net with SMTP; 14 May 2010 20:20:27 -0000 Received: from b0.ovh.net (HELO queueout) (213.186.33.50) by b0.ovh.net with SMTP; 14 May 2010 20:15:43 -0000 Received: from cug31-2-82-228-86-110.fbx.proxad.net (HELO ?192.168.0.7?) (ebenard%eukrea.com@82.228.86.110) by ns0.ovh.net with SMTP; 14 May 2010 20:15:42 -0000 Message-ID: <4BEDAF6D.5010704@eukrea.com> Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 22:15:41 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?RXJpYyBCw6luYXJk?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <1272921691-6963-1-git-send-email-eric@eukrea.com> <4BED67FB.1060900@eukrea.com> <3D406A77-A498-47BB-A8DD-6BEC7E55D5B6@student.utwente.nl> <4BED85C7.8000909@eukrea.com> <4BED8C2F.1080500@eukrea.com> <1273866959.4465.5.camel@lenovo.internal.reciva.com> In-Reply-To: <1273866959.4465.5.camel@lenovo.internal.reciva.com> X-Ovh-Tracer-Id: 12641041205285334345 X-Ovh-Remote: 82.228.86.110 (cug31-2-82-228-86-110.fbx.proxad.net) X-Ovh-Local: 213.186.33.20 (ns0.ovh.net) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 91.121.185.65 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: eric@eukrea.com X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on discovery X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on linuxtogo.org) Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] module-base.bbclass: keep PR if MACHINE_KERNEL_PR is not set X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 20:26:20 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Le 14/05/2010 21:55, Phil Blundell a écrit : > On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 19:45 +0200, Eric Bénard wrote: >> so why not setting r0 as a default in bitbake.conf as a compromise ? > > A default MACHINE_KERNEL_PR, you mean? That would cause PR to suddenly > go backwards for a whole bunch of machines, which would definitely not > be a good thing. See the mailing list archive; there was quite a lot of > discussion of these kinds of issues at the time that the M_K_PR change > was originally landed. > yes, in this case MACHINE_KERNEL_PR would overide kernel's PR which is not what we want. So actually the fix I propose is needed as while MACHINE_KERNEL_PR is not required by policy, module-base.bbclass is broken for machines without MACHINE_KERNEL_PR. Eric