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From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: John Keeping <john@metanate.com>
Cc: Martin Bark <martin@barkynet.com>, buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/connman: add an option to disable stats generation
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 22:59:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220728225943.5ec6944e@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220728175036.3262606-1-john@metanate.com>

On Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:50:36 +0100
John Keeping <john@metanate.com> wrote:

> By default connman periodically saves network interface statistics into
> an mmap'd round robin file.  These are not accessible over the D-Bus
> interface and the only method to interact with this is ResetCounters()
> which is marked as experimental.
> 
> Continually writing statistics will increase drive wear and may not be
> desirable in some devices with limited flash erase cycles, so add an
> option to disable this.  Statistics are enabled by default to avoid
> changing the behaviour of existing configs.

Based on this description, I have chosen to not make it "default y". It
is unlikely that it is useful to anybody, and seems potentially
problematic.

So applied, after removing the "default y".

Thanks!

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, co-owner and CEO, Bootlin
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-28 17:50 [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/connman: add an option to disable stats generation John Keeping
2022-07-28 20:59 ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot [this message]
2022-09-01 12:28 ` Peter Korsgaard

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