Contributions to Open Source Projects October to December 2023

The emlix team has yet again made several contributions to open source projects in the last few months, fixing problems and improving code.

When building a recipe based on a git repository with additional patches on top caused changing localversion information in Yocto. A fix has been
developed and integrated into meta-freescale and meta-tq


When switching the upstream source of a mirrored repository in a local GitLab instance the stale error information of the old source is still shown
for the new source. 


A missing bugfix backport to the 4.19 stable branch of the Linux kernel has been identified and is now included in version 4.19.304 and later.