[OE-core] any easy way to run kern-tools verbosely?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Bruce Ashfield wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> >
> >   if there's a way to do this, i'm going to be so embarrassed.
> > perusing kernel do_patch() routine, which eventually calls:
> >
> >         if [ -n "${KMETA}" ]; then
> >                 createme_flags="--disable-meta-gen"
> >         fi
> >         createme ${createme_flags} ${ARCH} ${kbranch}
> >
> >   but checking out "createme" in the sysroots/ directory shows:
> >
> > usage()
> > {
> > cat << EOF
> >
> >     createme [-v] [--disable-meta-gen] --meta=<branch name> <arch> <branch> [defconfig]
> >
> >       --disable-meta-gen: do not automatically create meta data
> >                           if not already present in the source tree.
> >       --meta: the branch name for meta data. default is 'meta'
> >       -v: verbose processing
> >       ... snip ...
> >
> > so "createme" accepts "-v" for verbose, but i see no trivially
> > easy way to pass that option given the hardcoding of the call in
> > do_patch().  are you just expected to manually edit createme to do
> > that?
>
> They are only useful for debugging at the moment, which is me :) So
> honestly, there's never been a reason to complicate the reciepes any
> more by dragging these options out to that level.

  ok, just wanted to make sure i wasn't missing something deviously
complicated.  thanks muchly.

rday

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