davis@yoshi:~/progs/poky$ tree my-new-layer/
my-new-layer/
|-- conf
|   `-- layer.conf
`-- recipes-kernel
    `-- linux
        |-- linux-beagleboard.org-4.1
        |   `-- defconfig
        `-- linux-beagleboard.org_4.1.bb

4 directories, 3 files
davis@yoshi:~/progs/poky$ grep my-new-layer build/conf/bblayers.conf
BBLAYERS = "/home/davis/progs/poky/meta /home/davis/progs/poky/meta-yocto /home/davis/progs/poky/meta-yocto-bsp /home/davis/progs/meta-oracle-java /home/davis/progs/poky/my-new-layer"
davis@yoshi:~/progs/poky$

davis@yoshi:~/progs/poky/build$ bitbake jfd-image-recipe2
Loading cache: 100% |################################################################################################################################################################################################| ETA:  00:00:00
Loaded 1308 entries from dependency cache.
WARNING: No bb files matched BBFILE_PATTERN_my-new-layer '^/home/davis/progs/poky/my-new-layer/'
NOTE: Resolving any missing task queue dependencies

Build Configuration:
BB_VERSION        = "1.26.0"
BUILD_SYS         = "x86_64-linux"
NATIVELSBSTRING   = "Ubuntu-14.04"
TARGET_SYS        = "arm-poky-linux-gnueabi"
MACHINE           = "beaglebone"
DISTRO            = "poky"
DISTRO_VERSION    = "1.8"
TUNE_FEATURES     = "arm armv7a vfp neon callconvention-hard cortexa8"
TARGET_FPU        = "vfp-neon"
meta
meta-yocto
meta-yocto-bsp    = "fido:83aa565d93aacae484976562ef1ae8dbbb6b2bc0"
meta-oracle-java  = "master:69d430cffcc2e5b2c536bc97cf487c77f59d8eaf"
my-new-layer      = "fido:83aa565d93aacae484976562ef1ae8dbbb6b2bc0"

NOTE: Preparing RunQueue