From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay7-d.mail.gandi.net (relay7-d.mail.gandi.net [217.70.183.200]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web12.1564.1618339196511772896 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2021 11:39:56 -0700 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=missing; spf=pass (domain: bootlin.com, ip: 217.70.183.200, mailfrom: michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com) X-Originating-IP: 109.210.254.211 Received: from [192.168.1.20] (amontpellier-552-1-199-211.w109-210.abo.wanadoo.fr [109.210.254.211]) (Authenticated sender: michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com) by relay7-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 756AB20002; Tue, 13 Apr 2021 18:39:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Janne Kiiskila , "docs@lists.yoctoproject.org" Subject: Re: [docs] [PATCH]Variables - WKS_FILE tip finding one used To: "Robert P. J. Day" References: <266de944-aab4-2e1d-021f-d722d15339e3@bootlin.com> <4788fc62-112d-b2cb-2292-e87a6282a214@crashcourse.ca> From: "Michael Opdenacker" Organization: Bootlin Message-ID: <3b3e763c-7e0b-611d-2b45-2c917aaa0537@bootlin.com> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 20:39:53 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4788fc62-112d-b2cb-2292-e87a6282a214@crashcourse.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US Janne, Robert, On 4/13/21 11:32 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > while this is undeniably useful information, the same tip could be > added to pretty much every variable in the variable glossary, so i'm > not sure we want to start doing that; i think it would be far more > useful to make this a general hint somewhere. > > i also recall, from years gone by, that chris larson had a cool > utility named "bb" that would search in a *proper* way for the values > of variables by actually digging into the data dictionary, rather than > the clearly hackier way of grep'ing through the output of "bitbake > -e". Thanks for your contribution and review (respectively). Do others have opinions about such a change? It would help to make a decision... Thanks in advance for jumping in... Cheers, Michael. -- Michael Opdenacker, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com