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| author | Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> | 2014-01-02 15:16:07 -0600 |
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| committer | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-01-08 13:02:02 +0000 |
| commit | 777601bb6e43ae66d48d6d63f83ccb5fe62e27bd (patch) | |
| tree | 89cf48348b2b87ac2a076843c914926e9b5cf745 /documentation | |
| parent | 1cd9f2c415d9a6e1d10ce106172f70ad858ea95c (diff) | |
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ref-manual: Edits to KERNEL_SRC and KERNEL_PATH variables.
These variable descriptions were identical in the ref-manual.
I found out some reasoning behind that and added a bit of
explanation to the entries.
Reported-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
(From yocto-docs rev: 5c786b5b62fefb959ed7c13bb83e718a9eb22189)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml | 22 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml index 759e708..96755bd 100644 --- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml @@ -3409,9 +3409,14 @@ recipes-graphics/xorg-font/font-alias_1.0.3.bb:PR = "${INC_PR}.3" </para> <para> - The <link linkend='var-KERNEL_SRC'><filename>KERNEL_SRC</filename></link> - variable is identical to the <filename>KERNEL_PATH</filename> - variable. + To help maximize compatibility with out-of-tree drivers + used to build modules, the OpenEmbedded build system also + recognizes and uses the + <link linkend='var-KERNEL_SRC'><filename>KERNEL_SRC</filename></link> + variable, which is identical to the + <filename>KERNEL_PATH</filename> variable. + Both variables are common variables used by external + Makefiles to point to the kernel source directory. </para> </glossdef> </glossentry> @@ -3429,9 +3434,14 @@ recipes-graphics/xorg-font/font-alias_1.0.3.bb:PR = "${INC_PR}.3" </para> <para> - The <link linkend='var-KERNEL_PATH'><filename>KERNEL_PATH</filename></link> - variable is identical to the <filename>KERNEL_SRC</filename> - variable. + To help maximize compatibility with out-of-tree drivers + used to build modules, the OpenEmbedded build system also + recognizes and uses the + <link linkend='var-KERNEL_PATH'><filename>KERNEL_PATH</filename></link> + variable, which is identical to the + <filename>KERNEL_SRC</filename> variable. + Both variables are common variables used by external + Makefiles to point to the kernel source directory. </para> </glossdef> </glossentry> |
