[yocto] Kernel config fragments are not applied

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 14-04-28 09:35 AM, Neuer User wrote:
> Am 28.04.2014 15:16, schrieb Bruce Ashfield:
>> It all depends on how adventurous you are today :) Using a defconfig
>> will work, and you can generate one without much trouble. Using
>> fragments will allow you to keep your changes separate from the
>> baseline configuration, but you'll need to tweak the recipe .. which
>> always carries a risk of some unexpected side effects.
>>
>> I'm around to help regardless of which way you chose.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Bruce
>>
>
> Well, I looked at the linux-yocto file and tried a couple of
> combinations in my bbappend. All of them geenrated lots of different errors.

If you send me pointers to your bblayers and local.conf settings, I'll
run a build to see what happens here as well.

I'm always interested in tracking these down regardless.

Bruce

>
> e.g. I used:
>
> FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}-${PV}:"
>
> COMPATIBLE_MACHINE_cubox-i = "(cubox-i)"
>
> SRC_URI += "file://videoin.cfg"
>
> addtask kernel_configme before do_configure after do_patch
>
> # Pick up shared functions
> inherit kernel
> inherit kernel-yocto
> #require linux-dtb.inc
>
> # extra tasks
> addtask kernel_configcheck after do_configure before do_compile
>
>
> The error messages are too long to include here :-/
>
> Guess, it is probably best to go the defconfig way.
>