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From: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
To: Phil Blundell <pb@pbcl.net>
Cc: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] bitbake.conf: update OLDEST_KERNEL to 2.6.0
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 11:20:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201107081120.17232.paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1310119932.18564.15.camel@lenovo.internal.reciva.com>

On Friday 08 July 2011 11:12:12 Phil Blundell wrote:
> If OLDEST_KERNEL is set to a value that's too new then the failure you
> get is anything but subtle: glibc will just print "kernel too old" and
> exit.

OK, I had just assumed you would just get errors about missing syscalls, good 
to know that it would be more obvious than that.

> I guess we could enhance that message to refer directly to
> OLDEST_KERNEL to make it a bit more obvious what you need to do.
> Also, we could teach kernel.bbclass to issue a diagnostic if you try to
> build a kernel that's older than OLDEST_KERNEL.

These sound like good ideas. I'll add them to my todo list to have a look at 
if nobody else gets there first.

Cheers,
Paul

-- 

Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre



  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-08 10:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-07 13:11 [PATCH 0/2] update OLDEST_KERNEL Paul Eggleton
2011-07-07 13:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] bitbake.conf: update OLDEST_KERNEL to 2.6.0 Paul Eggleton
2011-07-07 14:24   ` Koen Kooi
2011-07-07 14:34     ` Paul Eggleton
2011-07-07 23:15       ` Richard Purdie
2011-07-08  5:21       ` Khem Raj
2011-07-08  8:38         ` Paul Eggleton
2011-07-08  8:46           ` Chris Elston
2011-07-08  9:49             ` Paul Eggleton
2011-07-08  9:53           ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-08 10:03             ` Paul Eggleton
2011-07-08 10:12               ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-08 10:20                 ` Paul Eggleton [this message]
2011-07-08 14:17           ` Khem Raj
2011-07-08 16:28             ` Richard Purdie
2011-07-07 13:11 ` [PATCH 2/2] eglibc: bump PR for OLDEST_KERNEL change Paul Eggleton

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