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diff --git a/meta-skeleton/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-custom.bb b/meta-skeleton/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-custom.bb
index 4115d2f847..6194d4f8da 100644
--- a/meta-skeleton/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-custom.bb
+++ b/meta-skeleton/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-custom.bb
@@ -4,17 +4,15 @@
# kernel classes to apply a subset of yocto kernel management to git
# managed kernel repositories.
#
-# To use linux-yocto-custom in your layer, create a
-# linux-yocto-custom.bbappend file containing at least the following
-# lines:
+# To use linux-yocto-custom in your layer, copy this recipe (optionally
+# rename it as well) and modify it appropriately for your machine. i.e.:
#
-# FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}:"
# COMPATIBLE_MACHINE_yourmachine = "yourmachine"
#
# You must also provide a Linux kernel configuration. The most direct
# method is to copy your .config to files/defconfig in your layer,
-# in the same directory as the bbappend and add file://defconfig to
-# your SRC_URI.
+# in the same directory as the copy (and rename) of this recipe and
+# add file://defconfig to your SRC_URI.
#
# To use the yocto kernel tooling to generate a BSP configuration
# using modular configuration fragments, see the yocto-bsp and
@@ -32,33 +30,42 @@
# patches: patches can be merged into to the source git tree itself,
# added via the SRC_URI, or controlled via a BSP
# configuration.
+#
+# defconfig: When a defconfig is provided, the linux-yocto configuration
+# uses the filename as a trigger to use a 'allnoconfig' baseline
+# before merging the defconfig into the build.
+#
+# If the defconfig file was created with make_savedefconfig,
+# not all options are specified, and should be restored with their
+# defaults, not set to 'n'. To properly expand a defconfig like
+# this, specify: KCONFIG_MODE="--alldefconfig" in the kernel
+# recipe.
#
# example configuration addition:
# SRC_URI += "file://smp.cfg"
-# example patch addition (for kernel v3.4 only):
-# SRC_URI += "file://0001-linux-version-tweak.patch
-# example feature addition (for kernel v3.4 only):
+# example patch addition (for kernel v4.x only):
+# SRC_URI += "file://0001-linux-version-tweak.patch"
+# example feature addition (for kernel v4.x only):
# SRC_URI += "file://feature.scc"
#
inherit kernel
require recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc
-# Override SRC_URI in a bbappend file to point at a different source
+# Override SRC_URI in a copy of this recipe to point at a different source
# tree if you do not want to build from Linus' tree.
-SRC_URI = "git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;protocol=git;nocheckout=1"
+SRC_URI = "git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;protocol=git;nocheckout=1;name=machine"
-LINUX_VERSION ?= "3.4"
-LINUX_VERSION_EXTENSION ?= "-custom"
+LINUX_VERSION ?= "4.2"
+LINUX_VERSION_EXTENSION_append = "-custom"
-# Override SRCREV to point to a different commit in a bbappend file to
+# Modify SRCREV to a different commit hash in a copy of this recipe to
# build a different release of the Linux kernel.
-# tag: v3.4 76e10d158efb6d4516018846f60c2ab5501900bc
-SRCREV="76e10d158efb6d4516018846f60c2ab5501900bc"
+# tag: v4.2 64291f7db5bd8150a74ad2036f1037e6a0428df2
+SRCREV_machine="64291f7db5bd8150a74ad2036f1037e6a0428df2"
-PR = "r1"
PV = "${LINUX_VERSION}+git${SRCPV}"
-# Override COMPATIBLE_MACHINE to include your machine in a bbappend
+# Override COMPATIBLE_MACHINE to include your machine in a copy of this recipe
# file. Leaving it empty here ensures an early explicit build failure.
COMPATIBLE_MACHINE = "(^$)"