From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [209.85.134.184] (helo=mu-out-0910.google.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1J4bF4-000563-0X for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:08:10 +0100 Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id w8so3702207mue.4 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:03:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.86.70.8 with SMTP id s8mr7560690fga.29.1197979395368; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:03:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.20.166? ( [194.79.8.34]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f31sm19188715fkf.2007.12.18.04.03.11 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:03:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:35:00 +0200 From: Paul Sokolovsky X-Mailer: The Bat! (v3.64.01 Christmas Edition) Professional X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <978793792.20071218133500@gmail.com> To: "pHilipp Zabel" In-Reply-To: <74d0deb30712180217q5cb2c911l8a61567b5511b9d@mail.gmail.com> References: <74d0deb30712180217q5cb2c911l8a61567b5511b9d@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [oe-commits] org.oe.dev PDA-like machines with card slots: Enable "vfat" feature. X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:08:10 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello pHilipp, Tuesday, December 18, 2007, 12:17:27 PM, you wrote: > On Dec 18, 2007 3:47 AM, pfalcon commit > wrote: >> PDA-like machines with card slots: Enable "vfat" feature. >> * FAT-formatted cards are commodity, it's expectable them to be supported OOB. > A machine feature "vfat" sounds strange. I think machine features > should be about the hardware capabilities. Yep, with this common sense in mind I quickly replied to Rod that introducing it wouldn't help with "bloating" issue. Well, it instead COMBINED feature. > Unfortunately I don't have > a proposal for a good name, but I'd prefer something like "cardslot" > or some better generic term for SD/CF/MemoryStick/etc. capability. > Then the distro can decide whether that means to add vfat support or > ext2 or gnome-volume-manager or some fancy card formatting GUI app. It's of course not about just name, but about feature processing logic. Current COMBINED_FEATURES mechanism is at least very easy to understand and provides great deal of detailed flexibility. > regards > Philipp [] -- Best regards, Paul mailto:pmiscml@gmail.com