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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Jian Liu <jian.liu@windriver.com>,
	openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel-devsrc: Fix backward compaibilty
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 07:52:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1453276340.27999.141.camel@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1453267659-18756-1-git-send-email-jian.liu@windriver.com>

On Wed, 2016-01-20 at 13:27 +0800, Jian Liu wrote:
> kernel-dev is replaced by kernel-devsrc

No, its not.

> , which breaks
> backward compaibilty.
>  -- add alias for kernel-devsrc
>  -- kernel-devsrc provides the kernel-dev.
>  -- remove kernel-dev from the sub-packages of linux-windriver

kernel-dev is useful for things like profiling tools where you need
things like system.Map or the kernel configuration without source code.

If you need the "full" source, you can use kernel-devsrc.

I'm not sure we want to remove kernel-dev given it does have a use?

Cheers,

Richard


  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-20  7:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-20  5:27 [PATCH] kernel-devsrc: Fix backward compaibilty Jian Liu
2016-01-20  7:52 ` Richard Purdie [this message]
2016-01-20  8:22   ` Jian Liu
2016-01-20 13:24   ` Bruce Ashfield

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