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From: Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@pengutronix.de>
To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH] Kernel: never provide a development prebuild package
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 13:00:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140121120044.GJ12605@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201401211259.55399.jbe@pengutronix.de>

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 12:59:55PM +0100, Juergen Beisert wrote:
> Even if the developer enables the usage of prebuild packages, the Linux kernel
> should not be part of it. The kernel is a too sensitive part and its build must
> always be forced.
>     
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Beisert <jbe@pengutronix.de>
> ---
> diff --git a/rules/kernel.make b/rules/kernel.make
> index 8301b83..f4b3990 100644
> --- a/rules/kernel.make
> +++ b/rules/kernel.make
> @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ KERNEL_CONFIG		:= $(call remove_quotes, $(PTXDIST_PLATFORMCONFIGDIR)/$(PTXCONF_K
>  KERNEL_LICENSE		:= GPLv2
>  KERNEL_URL		:= $(call kernel-url, KERNEL)
>  KERNEL_SOURCE		:= $(SRCDIR)/$(KERNEL).$(KERNEL_SUFFIX)
> +KERNEL_DEVPKG		:= NO
>  
>  # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  # Prepare

The idea of the devpkg mechanism is to build everything beforehand. A
standard usecase is that one team prepares a system and another one does
already care about the application. So it would be helpful to have also
the kernel pre-built.

Can you elaborate what kind of issue you have seen?

rsc 
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-21 12:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-21 11:59 Juergen Beisert
2014-01-21 12:00 ` Robert Schwebel [this message]
2014-01-21 13:22   ` Michael Olbrich
2014-01-21 13:29   ` Juergen Beisert

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