[bitbake-devel] What does the "fn" represent for in "<fn>:<taskname>"?

[Ulf Magnusson]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 12:18 AM, Paul Eggleton
<paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> On Monday, 13 March 2017 2:24:32 AM NZDT kk wrote:
>> In commit:
>>     2c88afb60da54e58f555411a7bd7b006b0c29306
>> uses "<fn>:<taskname>" as the ID for tasks rather than a number, I know
>> taskname represent for, but the <fn> I don't understand, does it means file
>> name or function name?
>
> File name.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul

For some related whining, this really tripped me up when reading
BitBake sources. I suspect most people would immediately think
'function' rather than 'filename' when they see a variable called
'fn'. 'f' or 'fname' would've been clearer.

Cheers,
Ulf