ref-manual: fix patch documentation

The do_patch implementation does not apply patches from an entry in
SRC_URI pointing to a directory.
Remove the claim that this is implemented.

(From yocto-docs rev: de1156b6d95a2d1738807f0b0525edd0b58fc0e9)

Signed-off-by: Max Krummenacher <max.krummenacher@toradex.com>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz <foss+yocto@0leil.net>
Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/tasks.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/tasks.rst
index 8d563714a1..d484d08f82 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/tasks.rst
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/tasks.rst
@@ -326,21 +326,19 @@ file as a patch file::
        file://file;apply=yes \
        "
 
-Conversely, if you have a directory full of patch files and you want to
-exclude some so that the ``do_patch`` task does not apply them during
-the patch phase, you can use the "apply=no" parameter with the
+Conversely, if you have a file whose file type is ``.patch`` or ``.diff``
+and you want to exclude it so that the ``do_patch`` task does not apply
+it during the patch phase, you can use the "apply=no" parameter with the
 :term:`SRC_URI` statement::
 
    SRC_URI = " \
        git://path_to_repo/some_package \
-       file://path_to_lots_of_patch_files \
-       file://path_to_lots_of_patch_files/patch_file5;apply=no \
+       file://file1.patch \
+       file://file2.patch;apply=no \
        "
 
-In the
-previous example, assuming all the files in the directory holding the
-patch files end with either ``.patch`` or ``.diff``, every file would be
-applied as a patch by default except for the ``patch_file5`` patch.
+In the previous example ``file1.patch`` would be applied as a patch by default
+while ``file2.patch`` would not be applied.
 
 You can find out more about the patching process in the
 ":ref:`overview-manual/concepts:patching`" section in