Re: [bitbake-devel] [PATCH] event: Prevent bitbake from executing event handler for wrong multiconfig target

["Richard Purdie" <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, 2021-02-04 at 23:14 +0100, Tomasz Dziendzielski wrote:
> When multiconfig is used bitbake might try to run events that don't
> exist for specific mc target. In cooker.py we pass
> `self.databuilder.mcdata[mc]` data that contains names of events'
> handlers per mc target, but fire_class_handlers uses global _handlers
> variable that is created during parsing of all the targets.
> 
> This leads to a problem where bitbake runs event handler that don't
> exist for a target or even overrides them - if multiple targets use
> event handler with the same name but different code then only one
> version will be executed for all targets.
> 
> See [YOCTO #13071] for detailed bug information.
> 
> I added a mc target name as a prefix to event handler name so there
> won't be two different handlers with the same name.

This looks like it solves a few issues, thanks!

I'll include it in the next test runs and see where we go from there
but it looks right.

Cheers,

Richard