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

[Rifenbark, Scott M]

This manual has not been merged with yocto-docs/master yet so the book is not available as an "In Progess" book just yet.

Scott

>-----Original Message-----
>From: yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-
>bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Darren Hart
>Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 8:25 AM
>To: Robert P. J. Day
>Cc: Yocto discussion list
>Subject: Re: [yocto] kernel manual seems to make no mention of
>"defconfig"
>
>
>
>On 12/24/2012 04:30 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> 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.
>
>They are in the process of being edited by our tech writer as well as
>being converted from ascii to docbook. You can see the current state of
>them here:
>
>http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/hart/kernel-dev/kernel-dev.html
>
>See Section 2.2.2 and the sections that follow.
>
>Keep in mind these are being actively worked on, so there are some rough
>edges we're working through still.
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Darren
>>
>> rday
>>
>>
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