From 965d1899338f8d435df9320f2c2326e6155192ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Scott Rifenbark Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:20:50 -0700 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'documentation') diff --git a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml index 0e64b0aae0..b416337da6 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 = "${INC_PR}.3" In other words, the image will not build if a file in this list is not found. - An example is a machine that has WiFi capability. - WiFi being enabled is not essential for the machine to boot the image. + An example is a machine that has WiFi capability but is not essential + For the machine to boot the image. However, if you are building a more fully-featured image, you want to enable the WiFi. The package containing the firmware for the WiFi hardware is always @@ -1599,13 +1599,13 @@ recipes-graphics/xorg-font/font-alias_1.0.3.bb:PR = "${INC_PR}.3" In other words, the image will build if a file in this list is not found. - 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 kernel-module-examplewifi, you would use the following in the .conf file for the machine: -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf