Re: [bitbake-devel] [PATCH 2/2] bitbake-setup: write notes for generated build configs

On Mon, Jun 01, 2026 at 09:05:17AM +0200, Antonin Godard wrote:
> On Fri May 29, 2026 at 5:00 PM CEST, Ernest Van Hoecke via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> > From: Ernest Van Hoecke <[email protected]>
> >
> > For bb-layers configurations, bitbake-setup currently writes an empty
> > "conf-notes.txt". Configurations using "oe-template" get this file from
> > the template.
> >
> > Add an optional field called "notes" to configurations that populates
> > this field when "bb-layers" is used instead of "oe-template".
> 
> Suggestion: call the field "conf-notes" so it matches the resulting filename?
> 
> Also, I supposed newlines must be explicitly written in the string ("\n")? Are
> those properly converted, or does it need escaping of some sorts?
> 
> Thanks,
> Antonin
> 

Hi Antonin,

Yes, I tested with some newlines explicitly written and this worked fine.
Since it just comes from a json string and is passed to `f.write()` I
don't believe any special escaping is necessary, just "\n" is fine.

My understanding is that the Python json library should handle this well
and converts it to a real newline in the python string.

Thanks,
Ernest