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

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 23 Dec 2012, Bruce Ashfield wrote:

>
>
>
> 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!

  ah, i will go back and check those out, thanks.  just trying to
catch up on several days of not reading the list.

rday

-- 

========================================================================
Robert P. J. Day                                 Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
                        http://crashcourse.ca

Twitter:                                       http://twitter.com/rpjday
LinkedIn:                               http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday
========================================================================