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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [External] Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] package/hostapd: add debug information options
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 21:02:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190617210223.77a97ee2@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM=7fbd717PmwGE5Dh4Wi4AGhY14Pb7tabG7qrxCsgdCgDQ-LQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 12:56:08 -0500
Jared Bents <jared.bents@collins.com> wrote:

> > Could you explain what CONFIG_DEBUG_FILE is doing compared to
> > CONFIG_DEBUG_SYSLOG, and why one is conditional and not the other ? Do
> > we really want CONFIG_DEBUG_FILE unconditionally ?  
> 
> I based it off of wpa_supplicant's implementation for each.  In
> wpa_supplicant, CONFIG_DEBUG_FILE is turned on unconditionally while
> CONFIG_DEBUG_SYSLOG is optional.  CONFIG_DEBUG_FILE enables a runtime
> option (-f) to specify a file to direct the hostapd output to instead
> of stdout.  CONFIG_DEBUG_SYSLOG enables a runtime option (-s) to have
> the output go to syslog instead of stdout.  These are purely optional
> at runtime as if neither of the -f or -s command line arguments are
> used, the output will go to stdout as before.

What is the size impact of each option, compared to the overall
installation size of hostapd ?

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-17 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-17 15:35 [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/1] package/hostapd: add debug information options jared.bents at rockwellcollins.com
2019-06-17 17:41 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2019-06-17 17:56   ` [Buildroot] [External] " Jared Bents
2019-06-17 19:02     ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2019-06-17 20:27       ` Jared Bents
2019-06-18 22:05         ` Arnout Vandecappelle

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