From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [74.125.44.155] (helo=yx-out-1718.google.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1L7fOC-0005ri-0s for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:14:48 +0100 Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 4so1582736yxp.30 for ; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:11:20 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=OLmCEbiGjzn5GUOHxI4OSNqQ3fOKx/g3F25+LmXo8Ko=; b=DQVGzc3Q0RmUHdBvN6GpdkqSgC3PMbO1lqUME/EVNQZzDQSvMmCzy8mXELSP8bOVsn JMHvaI0qJA0KVCFu1wK6X9SvQ6ItGglIuSdNwFH1vKvgbKj53kDeCdWZex2oTiEAcTm+ ZZ9MMrdQxMhUySY3Yi2BRNRycuJKaXNneBhs0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=DBTsM2KEnDzY62zK5yt6FtcrfOHarqX/RX5pjz8HI7K1uSnqeYmuCdm/PFFVxMp6gL bQMWRkkevYxMgY1oYLfo0UQYxlxcWBSpwstIGqCLNSvfPsrmNZaJ/bICwyH1rW6urToX 6KX3NxzNebK23ndw8ticmfk5YgM8xSlUJyEWw= Received: by 10.100.124.1 with SMTP id w1mr7267734anc.3.1228263079943; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:11:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.100.167.15 with HTTP; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 16:11:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 03:11:19 +0300 From: Dmitry To: "Paul Sokolovsky" In-Reply-To: <20081129181339.7152fdd4@widy.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20081129181339.7152fdd4@widy.localdomain> Cc: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org, openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: packaging question 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: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:14:48 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 2008/11/29 Paul Sokolovsky : > Hello, > > On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:17:37 +0000 (UTC) > Dmitry Baryshkov wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> To make suspend work on tosa w/o problems, I have to put several >> files into apm hooks directories. The question is: into which OE >> package should I put them? > > This was discussed well once - please put all machine- and device- > specific hacks and workarounds into separate package(s), to not > contaminate the main device-independent package with them, which would > either cast the main package machine-specific (QA nightmare), or affect > other devices unexpectedly (even bigger QA nightmare). There're few > examples of this idea already, see apm-wifi-suspendfix, > bluez-dtl1-workaround packages. > > If such a package is machine specific, it's obvious where it should go > - into MACHINE_EXTRA_RDEPENDS. If it's however a workaround for > a particular device, especially pluggable, it makes sense to make it > more flexible and automagical and associate with the corresponding > kernel driver. See kernel.bbclass for how the packages above are > handled. Should I also bump PR of task-base after changing MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS? > >> >> -- >> With best wishes >> Dmitry > > [] > > -- > Best regards, > Paul mailto:pmiscml@gmail.com > -- With best wishes Dmitry