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author | Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> | 2021-03-18 10:24:52 +0300 |
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committer | Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> | 2021-03-26 07:03:09 +0300 |
commit | a01d1a25bcd7b22bdb16a8fd0583df0d41db3054 (patch) | |
tree | bd936e485c3239e1560136f8f4faca80807386c7 /tools/binman | |
parent | 862ddf91002c31dcca7bd8f2712a98b71de01de8 (diff) | |
download | u-boot-a01d1a25bcd7b22bdb16a8fd0583df0d41db3054.tar.xz |
binman: Document ExpandEntries() in the base class
Move the documentation to the base method as it is with other methods.
Also update it a little while we are here.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/binman')
-rw-r--r-- | tools/binman/entry.py | 11 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | tools/binman/etype/section.py | 6 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/tools/binman/entry.py b/tools/binman/entry.py index d58a730f3d..507760e2a8 100644 --- a/tools/binman/entry.py +++ b/tools/binman/entry.py @@ -211,6 +211,17 @@ class Entry(object): return {} def ExpandEntries(self): + """Expand out entries which produce other entries + + Some entries generate subnodes automatically, from which sub-entries + are then created. This method allows those to be added to the binman + definition for the current image. An entry which implements this method + should call state.AddSubnode() to add a subnode and can add properties + with state.AddString(), etc. + + An example is 'files', which produces a section containing a list of + files. + """ pass def AddMissingProperties(self, have_image_pos): diff --git a/tools/binman/etype/section.py b/tools/binman/etype/section.py index 1ceadef13f..2103919b0c 100644 --- a/tools/binman/etype/section.py +++ b/tools/binman/etype/section.py @@ -126,12 +126,6 @@ class Entry_section(Entry): return True def ExpandEntries(self): - """Expand out any entries which have calculated sub-entries - - Some entries are expanded out at runtime, e.g. 'files', which produces - a section containing a list of files. Process these entries so that - this information is added to the device tree. - """ super().ExpandEntries() for entry in self._entries.values(): entry.ExpandEntries() |