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

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Peter A. Bigot <pab at pabigot.com> wrote:
> 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.

Sounds good. I'm away from a screen for days at a stretch at the moment, so my
responsiveness is suffering! :)

Cheers,

Bruce

>
> Thanks.
>
> Peter



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