Re: [PATCH (v2)] Reverse the order of OVERRIDES

[Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>]

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On 15-10-10 17:41, Chris Larson wrote:
> From: Chris Larson <chris_larson@mentor.com>
> 
> Given the current implementation of OVERRIDES in bitbake, the variable is
> expected to contain elements in the order least specific to most specific,
> however, our current usage of it does not match that.  As one example, "local"
> is supposed to always be the most specific override, yet currently it's the
> least specific.  As another example, currently the target architecture is seen
> as more specific than the machine, which is also clearly wrong.
> 
> Big thanks to Chase Maupin for investigating and identifying this long
> standing issue.
> 
> It becomes clear that a reversal of the current value will bring us to a more
> sane behavior, and avoids the need for the dual overrides hack mentioned in
> the comments, so this implements this reversal, and drops the unnecessary and
> confusing comments.
> 
> This also introduces a MACHINE_OVERRIDES variable as a generic mechanism to
> inject overrides elements which are more specific than the distro but less
> specific than the machine, which is where things like MACHINE_CLASS or
> SOC_FAMILY or the like would go.  This variable is *space* separated, to make
> it easier and more convenient to assemble the variable incrementally.
> 
> Reported-by: Chase Maupin <chase.maupin@ti.com>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Larson <chris_larson@mentor.com>

Acked-by: Koen Kooi <k-kooi@ti.com>
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