From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from bsmtp1.bon.at (bsmtp1.bon.at [213.33.87.15]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web08.33257.1623055762826347230 for ; Mon, 07 Jun 2021 01:49:23 -0700 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=missing; spf=pass (domain: streamunlimited.com, ip: 213.33.87.15, mailfrom: quentin.schulz@streamunlimited.com) Received: from qschulz (vpn.streamunlimited.com [91.114.0.140]) by bsmtp1.bon.at (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4Fz6Vk3hPJz5tlK; Mon, 7 Jun 2021 10:49:18 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 10:49:17 +0200 From: "Quentin Schulz" To: Bruce Ashfield Cc: Steve Sakoman , "Jonas Mark (BT-FIR/ENG1-Grb)" , "openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org" , "ovidiu.panait@windriver.com" , "richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org" , "toertel@gmail.com" , "RUAN Tingquan (BT-FIR/ENG1-Zhu)" Subject: Re: [OE-core] Request to backport KERNEL_DTC_FLAGS to Dunfell Message-ID: <20210607084917.63p2pfevomio7maw@qschulz> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 2:45 AM Jonas Mark (BT-FIR/ENG1-Grb) > > 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