[bitbake-devel] bitbake user manual: shouldn't "Events" mention "[eventmask]"?

[Rifenbark, Scott M]

Hi, 

I updated the BB manual here to account for this flag.  Check it out and let me know if this adequately covers this issue:

http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.7/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual.html#events

Thanks, 
Scott

>-----Original Message-----
>From: bitbake-devel-bounces at lists.openembedded.org [mailto:bitbake-
>devel-bounces at lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of Robert P. J. Day
>Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014 10:27 AM
>To: Christopher Larson
>Cc: BitBake developer list
>Subject: Re: [bitbake-devel] bitbake user manual: shouldn't "Events" mention
>"[eventmask]"?
>
>On Mon, 11 Aug 2014, Christopher Larson wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 5:08 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>
>wrote:
>>
>>   reading up on events in BB manual and section 3.7, "Events", talks
>> of defining event handlers, but claims:
>>
>> "This event handler gets called every time an event is triggered."
>>
>> but don't you have to associate an event handler with one or more
>> events using the "[eventmask]" flag? that seems like a fairly
>> significant omission from that section. or am i just misunderstanding
>> how events work?
>>
>> eventmask is a fairly recent addition. If eventmask is undefined, the
>> handler is called for all events, and its left to the event handler to
>> make sure it's only doing its logic for the right events (e.g. call
>> isinstance() on 'e' to check what event it is). The docs likely were
>> never updated to include it.
>
>  yeah, that's probably something that should be in the bitbake manual
>somewhere. :-)
>
>rday
>
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