Bug 3999

Summary:	provide description and compatibility data with kern-features.rc
Product:	[Yocto Project Subprojects] Kernel	Reporter:	Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi>
Component:	kernel-tooling	Assignee:	Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Medium	CC:	dvhart, jessica.zhang, randy.macleod, sgw, srifenbark, yp.kernel.watcher, yp.watcher
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	Future
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	Yes (doc changes required)

Description Tom Zanussi 2013-03-08 23:27:04 UTC

Having kern-features.rc available is very useful for being able to quickly display all the available features to the user from the 'yocto-kernel' command.

That command would also like to display the feature description and compatibility info to the user as well - currently I do that by also wgetting the .scc file for each feature and parsing it out, which works but is very slow.

If that info was also available as part of kern-features.rc (or separate files if it makes more sense), it would be almost immediate and very helpful.

Comment 1 Darren Hart 2013-03-18 21:03:27 UTC

Bruce, please update the milestone/importance if this is to make 1.4. We're in M6 stabilization now.

Comment 2 Bruce Ashfield 2013-07-24 19:38:23 UTC

moving this to M4, where we expect to have the new kernel in place.

Comment 3 Jessica 2014-02-27 16:10:31 UTC

Hi Bruce,

I'm moving this bug to M4 since we don't do enhancement in M5 which is for stablization.

Thanks,
Jessica

Comment 4 Bruce Ashfield 2014-02-27 16:20:41 UTC

That likely means it won't be done at all .. it was moved to spread the load. 

Also note, we shouldn't blindly be looking at "enhancement" as a tag, but instead
trusting developers. If this was implemented, it is additional information and cannot
impact stability .. so painting everything with one brush, is a bad idea.

Moving out of 1.6 completely.



(In reply to comment #3)
> Hi Bruce,
> 
> I'm moving this bug to M4 since we don't do enhancement in M5 which is for
> stablization.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jessica

Comment 5 Darren Hart 2014-03-04 22:16:50 UTC

This is more like Documentation, which is, in fact, accepted in M5. I'd suggest retargeting there and annotating the subject to indicate it's really more of a Doc change than a feature enhancement.

Comment 6 Darren Hart 2014-03-04 22:17:09 UTC

Maybe move it to minor as well.

Comment 7 Scott Rifenbark 2014-08-04 07:48:15 UTC

Hi, 

I don't really understand this issue enough to update the docs.  We do have a section in the bsp-guide at http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.7/bsp-guide/bsp-guide.html#using-the-yocto-projects-bsp-tools that talks about the 'yocto-kernel' command.  

Would this documentation change be added user functionality to that command?

Scott

Comment 8 Darren Hart 2014-08-04 15:45:33 UTC

Scott, this is a development item which provides additional information through the yocto-kernel interface.

Comment 9 Scott Rifenbark 2014-08-05 05:23:32 UTC

Darren, 

Ok - thanks.  So when the bug is resolved the yocto-kernel script will provide new information to the user. 

Thanks

Comment 10 Bruce Ashfield 2021-06-24 16:04:25 UTC

We don't have any tooling that is active that needs this functionality, but it is still present in the kernel-cache.

Closing this, since the need expressed in the case no longer exists.