Bug 5931

Summary: Document the MODULE_IMAGE_BASE_NAME and KERNEL_IMAGE_BASE_NAME variables in the glossary
Product: [Documentation] Reference Reporter: Laszlo Papp <lpapp>
Component: handbookAssignee: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium CC: bluelightning, jessica.zhang, poky.doc.watcher, poky.watcher, srifenbark
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: 1.6 M4   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard: 11 March 2014 - RESOLVED
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: Done (doc changes complete)

Description Laszlo Papp 2014-03-07 16:40:35 UTC 

    


    


      



        
          Comment 1
        

        
          Scott Rifenbark

        

        
        

        
          2014-03-07 23:03:45 UTC
        

      






I added Paul to the CC list.  I grepped my poky directory for MODULE_IMAGE_BASE_NAME and it shows it getting set in the kernel.bbclass file:

meta/classes/kernel.bbclass:MODULE_IMAGE_BASE_NAME ?= "modules-${PKGE}-${PKGV}-${PKGR}-${MACHINE}-${DATETIME}"

Grepped KERNEL_IMAGE_BASE_NAME and it is also set in the kernel.bbclass files:

meta/classes/kernel.bbclass:KERNEL_IMAGE_BASE_NAME ?= "${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}-${PKGE}-${PKGV}-${PKGR}-${MACHINE}-${DATETIME}"

Beyond I guess the obvious for these variables, is there any further information one would want to know?

Thanks, 
Scott

    


    


      



        
          Comment 2
        

        
          Laszlo Papp

        

        
        

        
          2014-03-10 11:13:41 UTC
        

      






I think that is fine for starter. The IMAGE_NAME variable is also concise: http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/ref-manual/ref-manual.html

    


    


      



        
          Comment 3
        

        
          Scott Rifenbark

        

        
        

        
          2014-03-11 19:03:25 UTC
        

      






Hi, 

See http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.6/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#var-MODULE_IMAGE_BASE_NAME and http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.6/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#var-KERNEL_IMAGE_BASE_NAME for the added variables. 

As part of the fix, I also documented PKGE, PKGV, and PKGR as they appear as part of the default value for the *_BASE_NAME variables.  PKG was thrown in there as well.

Please check these over and let me know of any changes.

Thanks, 
Scott

    


    


      



        
          Comment 4
        

        
          Laszlo Papp

        

        
        

        
          2014-03-11 19:14:37 UTC
        

      






Looks good to me, thanks!

    


    


      



        
          Comment 5
        

        
          Scott Rifenbark

        

        
        

        
          2014-03-11 20:03:10 UTC
        

      






Thanks for the quick review Laszlo.  I will mark this RESOLVED.

Scott