Re: [docs] [PATCH] ref-manual: remove unused example recipe source files

["Michael Opdenacker" <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>]

Richard, Quentin,

Many thanks for your feedback.

On 7/27/21 1:38 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-07-27 at 13:23 +0200, Quentin Schulz wrote:
>> I wouldn't remove them as I find example recipes to be very welcomed as
>> real life examples of what can/needs to be done. It shows also some
>> gotchas and what a minimal recipe should look like.
>>
>> What I have to complain about those files currently is that they are not
>> built and they weren't working for a while, which is a bit of a shame
>> for example recipes :)
>>
>> I don't think keeping them in the yocto-docs is something we want to
>> push for (at least I won't), but I feel like we should keep them
>> somewhere they are built so we maintain them along other recipes.
>>
>> I can see that we have a recipe for an out-of-tree kernel drievr recipe
>> available in poky/meta-skeleton layer (called hello-mod). I guess this
>> is a place we could put the examples you want to remove from yocto-docs?
> If they were in meta-skeleton we could build/test them...


Thanks for the suggestion! I'll propose a patch doing this.

Cheers,

Michael.

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