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| author | Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> | 2012-10-18 14:20:50 -0700 |
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| committer | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-10-19 17:38:51 +0100 |
| commit | a048ed22df751f760a1bcef3d41b764b312d9992 (patch) | |
| tree | d49fe419d072355ef077441f75adb28a307acf7c /documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml | |
| parent | bbd299dee9510c6e08b1e1c097f81015215788a0 (diff) | |
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documenation: poky-ref-manual - updates to variables.
Did some re-wording on the WiFi example in both the
MACHINE_EXTRA_RDEPENDS and MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS
variables. Clunkiness fixed.
(From yocto-docs rev: 0c76ae0ee14cce62ff02b728b1c9ac21f4f3b385)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml index 0e64b0a..b416337 100644 --- a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml +++ b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml @@ -1560,8 +1560,8 @@ recipes-graphics/xorg-font/font-alias_1.0.3.bb:PR = "${INC_PR}.3" In other words, the image will not build if a file in this list is not found. </para> <para> - An example is a machine that has WiFi capability. - WiFi being enabled is not essential for the machine to boot the image. + An example is a machine that has WiFi capability but is not essential + For the machine to boot the image. However, if you are building a more fully-featured image, you want to enable the WiFi. The package containing the firmware for the WiFi hardware is always @@ -1599,13 +1599,13 @@ recipes-graphics/xorg-font/font-alias_1.0.3.bb:PR = "${INC_PR}.3" In other words, the image will build if a file in this list is not found. </para> <para> - An example is a machine that has WiFi capability. - WiFi being enabled is not essential for the machine to boot the image. - However if you are building a more fully-featured image, you want to enable + An example is a machine that has WiFi capability but is not essential + For the machine to boot the image. + However, if you are building a more fully-featured image, you want to enable WiFi. - However, the package containing the WiFi kernel module will not be produced + In this case, the package containing the WiFi kernel module will not be produced if the WiFi driver is built into the kernel, in which case you still want the - build to succeed instead of failing because the package could not be found. + build to succeed instead of failing as a result of the package not being found. To accomplish this, assuming the package for the module was called <filename>kernel-module-examplewifi</filename>, you would use the following in the <filename>.conf</filename> file for the machine: |
