From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga14.intel.com ([143.182.124.37]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Qf7y8-0008CP-Pd for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:07:34 +0200 Received: from azsmga001.ch.intel.com ([10.2.17.19]) by azsmga102.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 08 Jul 2011 03:03:39 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.65,498,1304319600"; d="scan'208";a="24344610" Received: from unknown (HELO helios.localnet) ([10.255.17.130]) by azsmga001.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 08 Jul 2011 03:03:38 -0700 From: Paul Eggleton To: "Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer" Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 11:03:37 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/2.6.38-8-generic-pae; KDE/4.6.2; i686; ; ) References: <201107080938.37370.paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> <1310118829.18564.13.camel@lenovo.internal.reciva.com> In-Reply-To: <1310118829.18564.13.camel@lenovo.internal.reciva.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201107081103.37637.paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] bitbake.conf: update OLDEST_KERNEL to 2.6.0 X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:07:34 -0000 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Friday 08 July 2011 10:53:49 Phil Blundell wrote: > They can always provide their own OLDEST_KERNEL setting, though. To > some extent I think it's a bit academic what the default in oe-core is. Yes, but let's have a sensible default value, in particular that will allow the majority not to experience subtle problems that they will have to spend time tracking down. Many people coming to OE fresh will not know this setting even exists - I only discovered it the other day by accident. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre