linux-yocto: Move PREFERRED_PROVIDER check to be generic

This check ensures that when the PREFERRED_PROVIDER for virtual/kernel
changes, the previous instances gets removed correctly so when the new
instance installs files into the shared area there is not an overlap of
old and new.

[YOCTO #10278]

(From OE-Core rev: 6b67018c2c0229a91fbc55c6aafb86781caf2499)

Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-dev.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-dev.bb
index dbe58477f5..9154bb7c31 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-dev.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-dev.bb
@@ -14,15 +14,6 @@ require recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc
 # provide this .inc to set specific revisions
 include recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-dev-revisions.inc
 
-# Skip processing of this recipe if it is not explicitly specified as the
-# PREFERRED_PROVIDER for virtual/kernel. This avoids network access required
-# by the use of AUTOREV SRCREVs, which are the default for this recipe.
-python () {
-    if d.getVar("PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel", True) != "linux-yocto-dev":
-        d.delVar("BB_DONT_CACHE")
-        raise bb.parse.SkipPackage("Set PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel to linux-yocto-dev to enable it")
-}
-
 KBRANCH = "standard/base"
 KMETA = "kernel-meta"