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authorScott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>2015-05-12 06:55:17 -0600
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2015-10-21 23:11:36 +0100
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dev-manual: Minor edits to "Configuring the Kernel" section.
(From yocto-docs rev: f840fa86b8fd970be20a11e362b7399635e78a93) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml35
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
index bab68a1..fb991fa 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
@@ -4771,23 +4771,27 @@
$ echo "CONFIG_SMP=y" >> my_smp.cfg
</literallayout>
<note>
- All configuration files must use the <filename>.cfg</filename> extension in order
- for the OpenEmbedded build system to recognize them as a configuration fragment.
+ All configuration fragment files must use the
+ <filename>.cfg</filename> extension in order for the
+ OpenEmbedded build system to recognize them as a
+ configuration fragment.
</note>
</para>
<para>
- Where do you put your configuration files?
- You can place these configuration files in the same area pointed to by
+ Where do you put your configuration fragment files?
+ You can place these files in the same area pointed to by
<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-SRC_URI'><filename>SRC_URI</filename></ulink>.
- The OpenEmbedded build system will pick up the configuration and add it to the
- kernel's configuration.
- For example, suppose you had a set of configuration options in a file called
- <filename>myconfig.cfg</filename>.
- If you put that file inside a directory named <filename>linux-yocto</filename>
- that resides in the same directory as the kernel's append file and then add
- a <filename>SRC_URI</filename> statement such as the following to the kernel's append file,
- those configuration options will be picked up and applied when the kernel is built.
+ The OpenEmbedded build system picks up the configuration and
+ adds it to the kernel's configuration.
+ For example, suppose you had a set of configuration options
+ in a file called <filename>myconfig.cfg</filename>.
+ If you put that file inside a directory named
+ <filename>linux-yocto</filename> that resides in the same
+ directory as the kernel's append file and then add a
+ <filename>SRC_URI</filename> statement such as the following
+ to the kernel's append file, those configuration options
+ will be picked up and applied when the kernel is built.
<literallayout class='monospaced'>
SRC_URI += "file://myconfig.cfg"
</literallayout>
@@ -4843,9 +4847,10 @@
<para>
For each output warning, a message points to the file
- that contains a list of the options and a pointer to the config
- fragment that defines them.
- Collectively, the files are the key to streamlining the configuration.
+ that contains a list of the options and a pointer to the
+ configuration fragment that defines them.
+ Collectively, the files are the key to streamlining the
+ configuration.
</para>
<para>
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