On Fri, 6 Mar 2026, Richard Purdie via lists.openembedded.org wrote:

> On Sun, 2026-03-01 at 19:38 -0500, Trevor Woerner via lists.openembedded.org 
> wrote:
> > By convention, wic will look for a "wic" directory in the top-level
> > of all BBLAYERS in order to find *wks files. oe-core was the only
> > exception; it stored its *wks files in scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks.
> > Take the *wks, *wks.in, *inc, and *cfg files that were in the canned-
> > wks location and place them in a "wic" top-level directory in the oe-
> > core layer, thereby following the convention of every other layer.
>
> This commit message is not strictly correct. The current code looks in
> "wic" or "scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks" in every layer, not just oe-core.
>
> You're dropping the scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks search location for all
> layers.
>
> I agree it is unlikely other layers are using that but the commit
> message does need to be correct. That in turn will lead to better
> migration notes for the release.
>
> The bigger issue is that if this isn't documented correctly, what else
> are the patches doing which I haven't spotted? :/.

So far in a quick ad hoc search of layers I've got cloned locally
I've found meta-sifive, meta-qcom, and meta-phytec that are using
scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks.  That suggests dropping support for
that location does need to be clearly called out in the migration
guide.

Scott


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