[oe] Is it possible to have variables that contain line breaks for module_conf

[Chris Larson]

The only way today is to leverage the function syntax.  A function in a
recipe is just a multi-line variable with a flag ("func") set.

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Ron Zachariah <ron_zach at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I am trying to have a variable that contains a line break in it.  When I
> use '\n' it seems to just print out the literal characters '\' 'n' and not a
> line break.
>
> The context for this is I want to create a module_conf for my device that
> contains more than one line in it.
>
> In my machine.conf file I have something like
> module_conf_testa = """install testa /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install testa
> force_testa=0,0x74; \
> echo "1" > /sys/devices/plb.0/.../item1; \
> echo "2" > /sys/devices/plb.0/.../item2 \
> \
> \n\nremove  testa /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove testa"""
>
> But when I look at the result /etc/modprobe.d/testa file there is only 1
> line with explicit '\' 'n' characters.
> Is there some syntax I can use to make these appear on seperate lines?
>
> Thanks
> Ron
>
>
>
>
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