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authorAdam Blank <adam.blank.g@gmail.com>2025-09-29 09:16:33 +0200
committerSteve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>2025-10-03 10:09:02 -0700
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kernel-dev/common.rst: fix the in-tree defconfig description
The description of the relation between KBUILD_DEFCONFIG and SRC_URI is reversed. In fact it is the SRC_URI provided defconfig which will be dropped by the kernel-yocto class if both are provided. (From yocto-docs rev: 6efc3ca5491722072fd394bae92d827791ef6bc3) Signed-off-by: Adam Blank <adam.blank.g@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com> (cherry picked from commit a808420655a0976ba08f013f468cf80f379b1d89) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com> Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
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diff --git a/documentation/kernel-dev/common.rst b/documentation/kernel-dev/common.rst
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--- a/documentation/kernel-dev/common.rst
+++ b/documentation/kernel-dev/common.rst
@@ -724,13 +724,9 @@ a Raspberry Pi 2, which is based on the Broadcom 2708/2709 chipset::
724 724
725 KBUILD_DEFCONFIG:raspberrypi2 ?= "bcm2709_defconfig" 725 KBUILD_DEFCONFIG:raspberrypi2 ?= "bcm2709_defconfig"
726 726
727Aside from modifying your kernel recipe and providing your own 727If the build system detects a statement that identifies an "out-of-tree"
728``defconfig`` file, you need to be sure no files or statements set 728``defconfig`` file, your :term:`KBUILD_DEFCONFIG` variable will take precedence
729:term:`SRC_URI` to use a ``defconfig`` other than your "in-tree" file (e.g. 729over it.
730a kernel's ``linux-``\ `machine`\ ``.inc`` file). In other words, if the
731build system detects a statement that identifies an "out-of-tree"
732``defconfig`` file, that statement will override your
733:term:`KBUILD_DEFCONFIG` variable.
734 730
735See the 731See the
736:term:`KBUILD_DEFCONFIG` 732:term:`KBUILD_DEFCONFIG`