From cc004358f1d19458f0c26e5a487461a6ce4647f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Scott Rifenbark Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:52:27 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml: updated KERNEL_FEATURES (From yocto-docs rev: 37a9cea71139ceda1d2a7da639f5555414ef497b) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml index 85e6d778fb..6843094fca 100644 --- a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml +++ b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml @@ -590,9 +590,11 @@ add metadata for all BSPs. The metadata you add through this variable includes config fragments and features descriptions, - which usually include patches as well as config fragments. + which usually includes patches as well as config fragments. You typically override the KERNEL_FEATURES variable - for a specific machine. + for a specific machine. + In this way, you can provide validated, but optional, sets of kernel + configurations and features. For example, the following adds netfilter to all the Linux Yocto kernels and adds sound support to the qemux86 machine: