On Wed, 24 Jun 2026, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 24, 2026 at 03:47:52PM -0500, Andrew Davis via 
> lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> > On 6/24/26 3:37 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> > >On Wed, Jun 24, 2026 at 03:30:26PM -0500, Andrew Davis via 
> > >lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> > >>All firmware that includes this helper should set their own SUMMARY line.
> > >>Currently all do (other than ti-adc-fw which we fix here), but they often
> > >>include this file after setting their own SUMMARY, so this common one
> > >>overwrites the correct one. Remove this default SUMMARY.
> > >
> > >How about flipping it the other way around?
> > >
> > >In the common .inc file we set:
> > >
> > >SUMMARY = "Prebuild binary firmware"
> > >
> > >And in specific firmware recioes we clarify:
> > >
> > >SUMMARY .= " for TI ADC PCM6240 configuration"
> > >
> > >That way it won't matter if the inclusion happens before or after setting 
> > >the
> > >specific SUMMARY and it won't be completely empty (albeit generic) if 
> > >someone
> > >forgets setting SUMMARY in the recipe.
> > >
> >
> > It might technically work, but I'd rather we throw a warning if someone 
> > forgets
> > their SUMMARY line rather than just taking a super generic fallback. If we 
> > allow
> > fallbacks like that what stops us from having
> >
> > SUMMARY = "Yocto recipe"
> >
> > in some main conf and hope recipes add
> >
> > SUMMARY .= " for Linux kernel on TI devices"
>
> There won't be any warning, as OE-Core has defaults for SUMMARY and
> DESCRIPTION:
>
> https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/conf/bitbake.conf#n276

  i literally added a note about that to the YP docs in the last few
days.

rday
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