From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay10.mail.gandi.net (relay10.mail.gandi.net [217.70.178.230]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web12.520.1627389373371080969 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2021 05:36:13 -0700 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=missing; spf=pass (domain: bootlin.com, ip: 217.70.178.230, mailfrom: michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com) Received: (Authenticated sender: michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com) by relay10.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0BDAC240017; Tue, 27 Jul 2021 12:36:10 +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> From: "Michael Opdenacker" Organization: Bootlin Message-ID: Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 14:36:10 +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: <4c34e5320bb80e9234ca68c1e110e0581853766e.camel@linuxfoundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US 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. -- Michael Opdenacker, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com