From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id F1C49E00906; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 14:48:18 -0800 (PST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] Received: from mail.chez-thomas.org (mail.mlbassoc.com [65.100.170.105]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F056E0084D for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 14:48:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 1998) id DC828F811DA; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:48:05 -0700 (MST) Received: from [192.168.1.114] (zeus [192.168.1.114]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF606F81199; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:48:04 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <54A32BC0.3090102@mlbassoc.com> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:48:32 -0700 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: yocto@yoctoproject.org References: In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: more BSP Guide pedantry involving customizing a recipe X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 22:48:19 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2014-12-30 12:31, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > (you can tell i'm bored and want to get back up to speed on stuff > ...) > > section 1.4 in BSP Guide, "Customizing a Recipe for a BSP", appears > to discuss a new layer, "meta-xyz", then suggests the new "interfaces" > file for this machine needs to go at the location: > > meta-xyz/recipes-core/init-ifupdown/files/xyz/interfaces > ^^^ ??? > > but the files/ subdirectory of "xyz/" would appear to be necessary > (as we all know) only if this was a more general layer that > represented several machines (say, meta-ti) for which we *needed* to > distinguish between machines. > > so while the above might be technically correct, it might mislead > readers to think they *needed* to create a "xyz/" subdirectory for > that overriding interfaces file. Actually, it *is* necessary if meta-xyz supports more than one MACHINE and those targets have unique versions of the 'interfaces' file (which is common since this file is being tailored for a particular target machine) -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------