On Mon, 27 Feb 2017, Bruce Ashfield wrote:

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 4:54 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@...> wrote:

  still working my way through the kernel-dev manual, and a
couple oddities in section 2.6.

  first, the example given uses the (alleged) standard/emenlow
branch, which i'm pretty sure doesn't exist anymore, yes? if
one is going to use an example, i suggest one base that
example on one of the YP reference BSPs that's guaranteed to
always exist, such as beagleboard or arm-versatile-926ejs.

I can't say that one will always exist .. but the arm-versatile
branch has been around for years, and until the qemuarm target
changes to use something else, it will continue to be around.

i might have skipped those possibilities since they produced no
output, which made the examples rather vacuous. :-) i'll check again,
want to make sure one picks a branch that actually generates output.

  next, i'm assuming that one would be running those "git
whatchanged" commands in the project directory, under
tmp/work-shared/<target>/kernel-source, yes? it's just not
made clear in that section where a reader would be doing those
things.

Correct.

ok, i will add that note to the imminent patch.

  finally, section 2.6.1 reads:

"Here is an example that looks at what has changed in the
emenlow branch of the linux-yocto-3.19 kernel."

what does the kernel version of 3.19 have to do with those git
commands? how do those commands depend on the particular
version of the linux-yocto recipe you're using?

At one point I was changing the branching structure, and the kernel
meta data was in the same repo as the kernel source, so that could
change some of the commands.

But nothing has changed on that front in quite some time, so the
answer is "they don't depend on the version you are using" .. so the
version reference could be dropped.

roger that.

rday

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