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dev-manual: drop "PREFERRED_VERSION" from x86-base.inc snippet

Message ID b99491de-f786-3ce3-d7de-104ba1660842@crashcourse.ca
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Series dev-manual: drop "PREFERRED_VERSION" from x86-base.inc snippet | expand

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Robert P. J. Day June 9, 2026, 2:08 p.m. UTC 
The machine include file "x86-base.inc" no longer includes the line
setting the PREFERRED VERSION -- that setting was removed in commit
298fa078fab58b64246376ffd70ad6a0c7589876 on Oct 1, 2023:

    qemux86/qemuarm: Drop kernel version overrides

    Drop the version overrides for the kernel for the x86 and arm machines
    so we can go back to following the distro versions. The reasons for
    these versions is mostly historical at this point as the issues were
    resolved.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>

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diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/new-recipe.rst b/documentation/dev-manual/new-recipe.rst
index 82c7ff4b2..0820d03b1 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/new-recipe.rst
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/new-recipe.rst
@@ -988,11 +988,10 @@  kernel recipe you want by using the :term:`PREFERRED_PROVIDER` variable. As
 an example, consider the :oe_git:`x86-base.inc
 </openembedded-core/tree/meta/conf/machine/include/x86/x86-base.inc>` include file, which is a
 machine (i.e. :term:`MACHINE`) configuration file. This include file is the
-reason all x86-based machines use the ``linux-yocto`` kernel. Here are the
-relevant lines from the include file::
+reason all x86-based machines use the ``linux-yocto`` kernel. Here is the
+relevant line from that include file::

    PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel ??= "linux-yocto"
-   PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto ??= "4.15%"

 When you use a virtual provider, you do not have to "hard code" a recipe
 name as a build dependency. You can use the