Re: [OE-core] [master-next][PATCH 2/3] psplash: work on first boot (sysvinit)

["Trevor Woerner" <twoerner@gmail.com>]

On Wed 2020-12-23 @ 10:06:05 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-12-23 at 16:50 -0500, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> > On Wed 2020-12-23 @ 06:00:21 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > > Personally, I don't really like the idea of having a top level
> > > directory called .psplash,
> > 
> > Neither do I, which is why I also added the code to remove the
> > directory once
> > the psplash program is done running. Whenever psplash is run the
> > directory is
> > created just before it starts and removed when psplash is done.
> > 
> > > is there a reason it doesn't work in /mnt?
> > 
> > This all works fine (without any changes) on the qemuX machines, but
> > on a real device (e.g. rpi) when the image is booted for the first
> > time everything is mounted, initially, RO, when using sysvinit. At
> > the end of the first boot, and for every subsequent boot, the
> > filesystem is R/W, so everything works on
> > subsequent boots.
> 
> Right, but why can't psplash create /mnt/.psplash? Why do we need / and
> not /mnt ?

Ah okay.

Let me play with it some more. The only point of /mnt/.psplash (or /.psplash)
is to have a directory in which a tmpfs can be mounted in which the fifo is
created. [this is the current behaviour]

It all sounds rather convoluted. I'll look for something better.