Re: [docs] [PATCH] ref-manual: document KERNEL_LOCALVERSION

[Daniel Ammann <daniel.ammann@bytesatwork.ch>]

Hi Michael

Comment inline.

Kind regards

Daniel


On 10/27/23 11:29, Michael Opdenacker via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> From: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
> 
> Introduced by
> https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/commit/?id=66ed174ccdf7a89cb998f503cc6b631e2d1adcc0
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
> CC: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@gmail.com>
> ---
>   documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst | 10 ++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
> index 03234d3f78..771eb91af6 100644
> --- a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
> +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
> @@ -2485,6 +2485,16 @@ system and gives an overview of their function and contents.
>         external tools. See the :ref:`ref-classes-kernel-yocto` class in
>         ``meta/classes-recipe`` to see how the variable is used.
>   
> +   :term:`KERNEL_LOCALVERSION`
> +      This variable allows to appends a string to the version

allows to append

> +      of the kernel image. This corresponds to the ``CONFIG_LOCALVERSION``
> +      kernel configuration parameter.
> +
> +      Using this variable is only useful when you are using a kernel recipe
> +      inheriting the :ref:`ref-classes-kernel` class, and which doesn't
> +      already set a local version. Therefore, setting this variable has no
> +      impact on ``linux-yocto`` kernels.
> +
>      :term:`EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN`
>         When you intend to use an
>         :ref:`external toolchain <dev-manual/external-toolchain:optionally using an external toolchain>`,
> 
> 
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