On Mon, 11 Aug 2014, Christopher Larson wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 5:08 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >   reading up on events in BB manual and section 3.7, "Events", talks > of defining event handlers, but claims: > > "This event handler gets called every time an event is triggered." > > but don't you have to associate an event handler with one or more > events using the "[eventmask]" flag? that seems like a fairly > significant omission from that section. or am i just > misunderstanding how events work? > > eventmask is a fairly recent addition. If eventmask is undefined, > the handler is called for all events, and its left to the event > handler to make sure it's only doing its logic for the right events > (e.g. call isinstance() on 'e' to check what event it is). The docs > likely were never updated to include it. yeah, that's probably something that should be in the bitbake manual somewhere. :-) rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================