[linux-yocto] KMETA branch/directory redux (yocto #5090)

[Peter A. Bigot]

On 08/07/2014 11:16 AM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Peter A. Bigot <pab at pabigot.com> wrote:
>> Now: What goes wrong with do_patch for me ultimately turns out to be
>> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5090 biting me again a
>> year after I filed and forgot it, because I set KMETA=yocto-3.14/meta
>> because that's the branch name in my local kernel directory.  Various kgit-*
>> tools still want to use KMETA to name the directory as well as the branch,
>> and they are not happy when KMETA isn't meta.
>>
>> I'm going to try to do a patch for that, if it's agreed that KMETA really
>> does only name the branch and something else needs to propagate the
>> directory name among all the scripts.
> I have an entire series that addresses issues like this. The work with 3.16
> delayed sending anything out. When I'm back from holidays, I'll be sending
> out those changes. So by about the M3 milestone of 1.7, most everything
> should be sorted.

Great; I look forward to seeing these.  I have local patches that do it 
well enough for my needs until the official ones are available.

Thanks.

Peter