OpenEmbedded / Yocto Usage Survey
Recently, I sent a survey to the OpenEmbedded and Yocto mail lists asking a series of questions about how they use OE. 38 people responded. The average number of years using OE is 4.8 years.
November 2015
Rebasing a set of changes with Git
One of the common things we do during Linux kernel development is move a series of patches from one kernel version to a similar version (say Linux 4.1 to 4.1.12). This is required as new stable versions of particular kernel version are released. One approach is to merge, but then your changes are mixed in with upstream commits and are more difficult to manage. Git rebase offers a convenient way to move a set of patches. In the following example we have a series of changes we made (or patches we applied) on top of the 4.1 kernel.