On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 07:07 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:<br />
<blockquote>LAYERSERIES_COMPAT</blockquote>
The problem is that there is inconsistency for treating layers with and without LAYERSERIES_COMPAT.<br /><br />If the layer without LAYERSERIES_COMPAT works perfectly - only a warning is emitted. Then<br />symmetrically the same should happen for a layer with LAYERSERIES_COMPAT - especially that<br />this check is not able to detect any real problems in this layer - it only blindly rejects a valid layer.<br /><br />Additionally, this bb.fatal generates compatibility problem as we're able to consume 3rd party<br />layers which have LAYERSERIES_COMPAT in yocto morty (which doesn't use this compatibility check),<br />but the same layers are false positively rejected by yocto dunfell.<br /><br />Having this merged would allow to limit maintenance burden on 3rd party layers.<br /><br />--<br />Regards,<br />Damian