From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay9-d.mail.gandi.net (relay9-d.mail.gandi.net [217.70.183.199]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web09.353.1627663266203964301 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2021 09:41:06 -0700 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=missing; spf=pass (domain: bootlin.com, ip: 217.70.183.199, mailfrom: michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com) Received: (Authenticated sender: michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com) by relay9-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CCD44FF806; Fri, 30 Jul 2021 16:41:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: docs@lists.yoctoproject.org, Quentin Schulz Subject: Re: [docs] [PATCH] ref-manual: remove unused example recipe source files To: Richard Purdie , Quentin Schulz References: <16959EEB5BD85597.12821@lists.yoctoproject.org> <20210727112302.spzqyqnu3k2sskxi@fedora> <4c34e5320bb80e9234ca68c1e110e0581853766e.camel@linuxfoundation.org> <1695A60376DC3ECA.18160@lists.yoctoproject.org> <446455e7ae18c5381f20aecd95eed2bbe6eaf736.camel@linuxfoundation.org> From: "Michael Opdenacker" Organization: Bootlin Message-ID: <0e36ee4a-c227-a6cb-92eb-00826183be5c@bootlin.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2021 18:41:03 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <446455e7ae18c5381f20aecd95eed2bbe6eaf736.camel@linuxfoundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US Hi Richard, On 7/29/21 3:48 PM, Richard Purdie wrote: > >> While I had no problem moving and testing the "hello-single", >> "hello-autotools"  (GNU hello actually) and "libxpm" recipe examples, >> I'm struggling with the "mtd-utils" one. >> >> Neither the example recipe (version 1.0.0: >> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/yocto-docs/tree/documentation/ref-manual/examples/mtd-makefile/mtd-utils_1.0.0.bb) >> nor the one which source code is directly in the documentation (version >> 1.5.1+: >> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/yocto-docs/tree/documentation/dev-manual/common-tasks.rst#n2307) >> compile any more. >> >> Given that we have an upstream mtd-utils recipe that works, what's the >> point of trying to fix a broken example? This seems like a waste of >> effort to me... >> >> So, may I drop that old mtd-utils example? > I'd say yes, that one isn't adding value. Thanks for confirming this. I'm waiting for you to merge my oe-core patch (https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/154245) to remove these examples from the documentation. Thank you in advance, Michael. -- Michael Opdenacker, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com