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authorSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>2023-07-18 07:23:57 -0600
committerSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>2023-07-20 14:10:58 -0600
commit20a317fb75f2cbd03cd8d2f8e65bab5faf6abbb4 (patch)
treef4b5f3d90b8c8bb69e10f2a1f9ff095577d28dd8 /tools/binman/entry.py
parent7a58a0f319cab0a70d3cffabc2a5b4b322a5b5cf (diff)
binman: Add more detail on how ObtainContents() works
This area of binman can be a bit confusing. Add some more comments to help. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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diff --git a/tools/binman/entry.py b/tools/binman/entry.py
index 328b5bc568a..f20f32213a9 100644
--- a/tools/binman/entry.py
+++ b/tools/binman/entry.py
@@ -474,6 +474,9 @@ class Entry(object):
def ObtainContents(self, skip_entry=None, fake_size=0):
"""Figure out the contents of an entry.
+ For missing blobs (where allow-missing is enabled), the contents are set
+ to b'' and self.missing is set to True.
+
Args:
skip_entry (Entry): Entry to skip when obtaining section contents
fake_size (int): Size of fake file to create if needed