From feeb4592b7642deb8496c734d1bffc76326cc4d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 12:30:42 -0700
Subject: dev-manual: Updated the "Creating Your Own Layer" section.

For step 3 on creating the layer, I put in wording to make sure
the user does not create a layer in the cloned poky directory.

(From yocto-docs rev: 1a0d1d0c0cdfa77c6df005d0294d11a02ca3770c)

Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'documentation')

diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
index b932f8178b..417a95612e 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
@@ -65,8 +65,15 @@
                     <listitem><para>
                         <emphasis>Create a Directory:</emphasis>
                         Create the directory for your layer.
-                        While not strictly required, prepend the name of the
-                        directory with the string "meta-".
+                        When you create the layer, be sure to create the
+                        directory in an area not associated with the
+                        Yocto Project
+                        <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#source-directory'>Source Directory</ulink>
+                        (e.g. the cloned <filename>poky</filename> repository).
+                        </para>
+
+                        <para>While not strictly required, prepend the name of
+                        the directory with the string "meta-".
                         For example:
                         <literallayout class='monospaced'>
      meta-mylayer
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