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| author | Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> | 2018-11-15 14:30:15 -0800 |
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| committer | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-12-27 22:54:55 +0000 |
| commit | 8271ca3968b50ce4347fa49e42581e603640dfbf (patch) | |
| tree | ed18303ebeb27e5ef6eef1f2b18af64e93954b18 /documentation | |
| parent | 94a6cd1c2f40a43ddf517ea0894e351d52219604 (diff) | |
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kernel-dev: Updated phrasing for what a "defconfig" file is.
It was over simplistic.
(From yocto-docs rev: 8c66db6f2a35e9e57423690976a16d6a815ccbc9)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-common.xml | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-common.xml b/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-common.xml index 83b02b1c18..9052876122 100644 --- a/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-common.xml +++ b/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-common.xml @@ -1603,8 +1603,11 @@ <title>Creating a <filename>defconfig</filename> File</title> <para> - A <filename>defconfig</filename> file is simply a - <filename>.config</filename> renamed to "defconfig". + A <filename>defconfig</filename> file in the context of + the Yocto Project is often a <filename>.config</filename> + file that is copied from a build or a + <filename>defconfig</filename> taken from the kernel tree + and moved into recipe space. You can use a <filename>defconfig</filename> file to retain a known set of kernel configurations from which the OpenEmbedded build system can draw to create the final |