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+# The meta-selinux layer includes an selinux.cfg file containing
+# configs necessary for the Linux kernel to enable SELinux
+
+# In order to reduce maintainability issues, the file will 
+# be retained in meta-selinux layer
+
+FILESEXTRAPATHS:prepend := "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'selinux', '${TOPDIR}/../sources/meta-selinux/recipes-kernel/linux/files:', '', d)}"
+
+SRC_URI += "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'selinux', 'file://selinux.cfg', '', d)}"
+
+do_configure:append() {
+    if echo "${DISTRO_FEATURES}" | grep -q "selinux"; then
+        cat ${WORKDIR}/selinux.cfg >> ${B}/.config
+    fi
+}
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