Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 3/3] devtool: remove obsolete SRCTREECOVEREDTASKS handling

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, 2024-09-02 at 22:31 +0200, Adrian Freihofer via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> From: Adrian Freihofer <adrian.freihofer@siemens.com>
> 
> The kernel-yocto.bbclass defines some tasks tasks and it also adds these
> tasks to the SRCTREECOVEREDTASKS list. There is no need for devtool to
> duplicate this code and override what the kernel-yocto.bbclass already
> does.
> 
> devtool modify generates a linux-yocto.6.6.bbappend containing:
>   SRCTREECOVEREDTASKS="\
>     do_fetch \
>     do_kernel_checkout \
>     do_kernel_configcheck \
>     do_unpack \
>     do_validate_branches \
>   "
>   do_patch[noexec] = "1"
> 
> linux-yocto set SRCTREECOVEREDTASKS to
>   SRCTREECOVEREDTASKS="\
>     do_fetch \
>     do_kernel_checkout \
>     do_kernel_configcheck \
>     do_patch \
>     do_unpack \
>     do_validate_branches \
>   "
> 
> The code in devtool modify is therefore considered as redundant and
> removed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Freihofer <adrian.freihofer@siemens.com>
> ---
>  scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py | 3 ---
>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py b/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
> index 312eb8ab506..b2e1a6ca3a5 100644
> --- a/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
> +++ b/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
> @@ -952,9 +952,6 @@ def modify(args, config, basepath, workspace):
>                  f.write('EXTERNALSRC_BUILD:pn-%s = "%s"\n' % (pn, srctree))
>  
>              if bb.data.inherits_class('kernel', rd):
> -                f.write('SRCTREECOVEREDTASKS = "do_validate_branches do_kernel_checkout '
> -                        'do_fetch do_unpack do_kernel_configcheck"\n')
> -                f.write('\ndo_patch[noexec] = "1"\n')
>                  f.write('\ndo_kernel_configme:prepend() {\n'
>                          '    if [ -e ${S}/.config ]; then\n'
>                          '        mv ${S}/.config ${S}/.config.old\n'


Note that "kernel" != "linux-yocto". Does a standard kernel still need fetch/unpack?

Cheers,

Richard