9753 2016-06-10 01:44:02 +0000 Document automatic layer priority calculation 2026-10-23 08:13:40 +0000 1 1 9 Documentation BitBake User Manual bitbake-manual unspecified x86 Multiple ACCEPTED Medium enhancement 6.2 M4 1 bluelightning antonin.godard mshah richard.purdie srifenbark --- --- Yes (doc changes required) oldest_to_newest 62887 0 bluelightning 2016-06-10 01:44:02 +0000 I had almost completely forgotten but I wrote some code a long time ago to set BBFILE_PRIORITY if it's not explicitly set in layer.conf. This commit added it: http://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/commit?id=115b89fa279b64e79da0f72caf7b30965a83fab1 There's also a reference to bug 790 that describes the original feature request. We need to ensure the documentation covers this functionality. (I can provide the raw material.) 62977 1 srifenbark 2016-06-14 20:34:51 +0000 Right now we have existing descriptions for BBFILE_PRIORITY, LAYERDEPENDS, and LAYERVERSION. Is the documentation component for this bug just making sure we are saying BBFILE_PRIORITY is set now to some default if it is not explicitly set in the layer.conf file? Or, is there more to it? Scott 62979 2 bluelightning 2016-06-14 20:52:25 +0000 We need to describe what happens when BBFILE_PRIORITY isn't set - i.e. the logic that figures out what the priority should be under those circumstances. I'll need to describe that of course. 63034 3 richard.purdie 2016-06-16 14:37:05 +0000 Given its not being used heavily do we need that automatic layer priority code? 63076 4 bluelightning 2016-06-16 20:38:59 +0000 Well we just had one user tell us that they rely completely upon it. I don't think we can know how widely used it is at this point. 88869 5 mshah 2021-01-06 05:29:48 +0000 Hi @Paul Eggleton @Richard Purdie, Is this still required? If Yes, then please provide the raw material, so that I can try to put it in the documentation. Thanks. 94625 6 richard.purdie 2023-01-05 15:57:19 +0000 Should we remove code instead? 96858 7 randy.macleod 2023-10-24 14:24:31 +0000 Bulk move from 4.99 or 0.00 to 5.99 104765 8 richard.purdie 2026-03-20 14:07:24 +0000 Not sure if we should document or attempt to remove the automatic priority logic but assign to Antonin as a docs bug