[yocto] kernel manual seems to make no mention of "defconfig"

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Bruce Ashfield
<bruce.ashfield at gmail.com>wrote:

>
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>wrote:
>
>>
>>   poking around kern-tools for purpose of documenting some stuff and
>> ran across this in "updateme":
>>
>> split_command_line_objects() {
>>         command_line_values=$@
>>
>>         for v in $command_line_values; do
>>             v_base=`basename $v`
>>             case $v_base in
>>                 *.scc) migrate_feature $v
>>                     ;;
>>                 *.cfg) migrate_cfg $v
>>                     ;;
>>                 *.patch|*.diff) migrate_patch $v
>>                     ;;
>>                 defconfig) migrate_cfg $v;;
>>                 *) ;;
>>             esac
>>         done
>> }
>>
>>   AFAICT, there is no mention of a possible "defconfig" entry anywhere
>> in the current yocto kernel manual.
>>
>
> You won't find it there because it isn't specific to the kern-tools, what
> you see
> there is a small wrapper on top of the kernel.bbclass defconfig handling,
> with
> the same end result. So standard yocto/oe-core docs apply here.
>


I also forgot to mention that Darren did cover defconfigs in the yocto
kernel
docs that were put together for the 1.4 release (I think they were posted
here),
so there's better / additional coverage upcoming!

I'm just not near my normal development systems to confirm, since I'm hiding
out for the holidays watching a pack of kids get completely wound up for the
big day!

Cheers,

Bruce


>
> Cheers,
>
> Bruce
>
>
>>
>> rday
>>
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