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authorScott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>2013-05-29 14:09:04 +0300
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2013-05-31 08:19:20 +0100
commit4f41a86018834efa56bf4a44da4efa6686bfd220 (patch)
treec5ee406e97f88150ec6fd7f681a077d0df5fa210 /documentation/kernel-dev
parent36828be8353aebd7906029a9deed619ca4e9fd9a (diff)
downloadopenembedded-core-contrib-4f41a86018834efa56bf4a44da4efa6686bfd220.tar.gz
dev-manual, kernel-manual: Added links to THISDIR variable
There is now a glossary description for the THISDIR variable in ref-manual. I added some cross-reference links to the variable in key places of these two manuals. (From yocto-docs rev: 0d0f756c142c506a66ebc6a1a33e9f124dafd333) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'documentation/kernel-dev')
-rw-r--r--documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-advanced.xml2
-rw-r--r--documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-common.xml5
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-advanced.xml b/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-advanced.xml
index 2626f691dc..d15e26ffbf 100644
--- a/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-advanced.xml
+++ b/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-advanced.xml
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@
<filename>oe-core/meta-skeleton/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-custom.bb</filename>
to a recipe in your layer, <filename>FILESEXTRAPATHS</filename>
is typically set to
- <filename>${THISDIR}/${</filename><ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-PN'><filename>PN</filename></ulink><filename>}</filename>.
+ <filename>${</filename><ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-THISDIR'><filename>THISDIR</filename></ulink><filename>}/${</filename><ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-PN'><filename>PN</filename></ulink><filename>}</filename>.
See the "<link linkend='modifying-an-existing-recipe'>Modifying an Existing Recipe</link>"
section for more information.
</para>
diff --git a/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-common.xml b/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-common.xml
index e18eb31923..11a527ce24 100644
--- a/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-common.xml
+++ b/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-common.xml
@@ -97,8 +97,9 @@
<literallayout class='monospaced'>
FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}"
</literallayout>
- The path <filename>${THISDIR}/${</filename><ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-PN'><filename>PN</filename></ulink><filename>}</filename> expands
- to "linux-yocto" in the current directory for this example.
+ The path <filename>${</filename><ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-THISDIR'><filename>THISDIR</filename></ulink><filename>}/${</filename><ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-PN'><filename>PN</filename></ulink><filename>}</filename>
+ expands to "linux-yocto" in the current directory for this
+ example.
If you add any new files that modify the kernel recipe and you
have extended <filename>FILESPATH</filename> as
described above, you must place the files in your layer in the