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

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> 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.

I won't claim that there's nothing devious lurking ;)

Cheers,

Bruce

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