From: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
To: Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>,
Eric Nelson <eric.nelson@boundarydevices.com>
Cc: "meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org" <meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org>
Subject: Re: [meta-fsl-arm-extra][PATCH] nitrogen6x.conf: Allow kernel provider override
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 08:25:15 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <527116CB.1050508@mlbassoc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP9ODKrgHSOp9zE6zzSqb4-5mqFfGZY1hgiy2pzFm_Jdi+1yNA@mail.gmail.com>
On 2013-10-30 08:10, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>> This change lets the user override the choice of kernel in local.conf
>> Without it, there is no way to build any kernel, e.g. linux-imx, other
>> than the linux-boundary version.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
>
> I really dislike this.
>
> I understand your need, and it is a valid one, but it'd be better you
> to make a new machine (which includes this one) and override it there.
Even if I did that (and I have), if I include this config file, I can
never override this setting in a soft (user settable) way.
> If we start allow all kind of override in machine configuration it
> loses its meaning and complicates the support.
>
> Eric? comments?
>
Eric has already approved this change.
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Gary Thomas | Consulting for the
MLB Associates | Embedded world
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-30 14:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-30 13:41 [meta-fsl-arm-extra][PATCH] nitrogen6x.conf: Allow kernel provider override Gary Thomas
2013-10-30 14:06 ` Eric Nelson
2013-10-30 14:10 ` Otavio Salvador
2013-10-30 14:25 ` Eric Nelson
2013-10-30 14:28 ` Otavio Salvador
2013-10-30 14:42 ` Eric Nelson
2013-10-30 14:25 ` Gary Thomas [this message]
2013-10-30 14:33 ` Otavio Salvador
2013-10-30 14:44 ` Gary Thomas
2013-10-30 16:01 ` Otavio Salvador
2013-10-30 16:16 ` Eric Nelson
2013-10-30 16:56 ` Daiane Angolini
2013-10-30 17:29 ` Otavio Salvador
2013-10-30 17:46 ` Eric Nelson
2013-10-30 17:51 ` Otavio Salvador
2013-10-30 18:04 ` Gary Thomas
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