From: "Quentin Schulz" <quentin.schulz@streamunlimited.com>
To: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@gmail.com>
Cc: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>,
"Jonas Mark (BT-FIR/ENG1-Grb)" <Mark.Jonas@de.bosch.com>,
"openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org"
<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>,
"ovidiu.panait@windriver.com" <ovidiu.panait@windriver.com>,
"richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org"
<richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>,
"toertel@gmail.com" <toertel@gmail.com>,
"RUAN Tingquan (BT-FIR/ENG1-Zhu)" <Tingquan.Ruan@cn.bosch.com>
Subject: Re: [OE-core] Request to backport KERNEL_DTC_FLAGS to Dunfell
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 10:49:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210607084917.63p2pfevomio7maw@qschulz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADkTA4NkMjTjTJbp_6HCapzasyzrWGwQkBWuen7GWgNi4ppZbw@mail.gmail.com>
Hi all,
On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 11:25:36AM -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 11:09 AM Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 2:45 AM Jonas Mark (BT-FIR/ENG1-Grb)
> > <Mark.Jonas@de.bosch.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > We are using DT overlays and have the need to pass the -@ parameter in DTC_FLAGS to Linux' make. The patch
> > >
> > > "kernel-devicetree: Introduce KERNEL_DTC_FLAGS to pass dtc flags"
> > > https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?h=hardknott&id=063b5de86624a42b0aa784db6dddc7552a6dee7f
> > >
> > > makes that possible in a nice way. Would it be reasonable to request backporting of this patch to Dunfell?
> >
> > This is sort of in the grey area between feature and bug fix. It does
> > seem relatively safe, so I would consider taking the patch if there
> > are no objections from the community.
> >
> > Added Bruce to the cc list to get his opinion.
>
> Good timing, I happened to notice this earlier and was thinking about it.
>
> While I also wouldn't call it a bug, I agree it is a small/standalone
> change that shouldn't break anything.
>
> A quick scan of the dunfell tested kernels shows unchanged Makefile
> handling of the option, so there's little risk there.
>
> I'd say that it would be fine for backport.
>
Please backport the documentation patch as well if you do backport the
feature, see:
https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/yocto-docs/commit/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst?id=b2d5bf48fe4e76446a38762839865176294a4a3c
Cheers,
Quentin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-07 8:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-04 12:45 Request to backport KERNEL_DTC_FLAGS to Dunfell Mark Jonas
2021-06-04 15:09 ` Steve Sakoman
2021-06-04 15:25 ` Bruce Ashfield
2021-06-07 8:49 ` Quentin Schulz [this message]
2021-06-16 15:28 ` Mark Jonas
2021-06-16 15:53 ` Steve Sakoman
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