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in question.
</para>
<note><para>
- This practice is not typically encouraged.
- However, during development cycles or when large features are merged the practice
- can't be avoided.
+ The Yocto Project team strives to place features in the tree such that they can be
+ shared by all boards and kernel types where possible.
+ However, during development cycles or when large features are merged this practice
+ cannot always be followed.
+ In those cases isolated branches are used for feature merging.
</para></note>
<para>
BSP-specific code additions are handled in a similar manner to kernel-specific additions.