Re: [poky] [PATCH 2/3] netbase: automatically bring up usb0 on beagleboard

[Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>]

On 04/15/2011 10:00 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> From: Paul Eggleton<paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
>
> Avoids manual configuration of the BeagleBoard xM's ethernet port (which
> shows up as usb0).
>
> Fixes [YOCTO #930]
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton<paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>   .../netbase/netbase-4.45/beagleboard/interfaces    |   27 ++++++++++++++++++++
>   1 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/netbase/netbase-4.45/beagleboard/interfaces
>
I know this time would come!

So this is up for discussion in a big way!

There was some initial discussion at ELC this last week about what goes 
where and how layers are going to work moving forward.  I know that we 
are committed to the qemu* machines in oe-core (meta), and that 
currently meta-yocto contains a set of core HW (beagleboard among them), 
so the question then is should the HW specific stuff, such as this patch 
move to meta-yocto or some other layer?  There are a couple other 
recipes such as x-load and formfactor that contain HW specific files.

I believe and others will have to confirm this, that some distros may 
want to use these core files, but not via meta-yocto as a layer, or do 
those distros have these files modified differently (ie, not just 
copies, which would be bad).

This is all food for thought.

Sau!


> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/netbase/netbase-4.45/beagleboard/interfaces b/meta/recipes-core/netbase/netbase-4.45/beagleboard/interfaces
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..b6935c1
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/netbase/netbase-4.45/beagleboard/interfaces
> @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
> +# /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)
> +
> +# The loopback interface
> +auto lo
> +iface lo inet loopback
> +
> +# Wireless interfaces
> +iface wlan0 inet dhcp
> +	wireless_mode managed
> +	wireless_essid any
> +	wpa-driver wext
> +	wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
> +
> +iface atml0 inet dhcp
> +
> +# Wired or wireless interfaces
> +auto eth0
> +iface eth0 inet dhcp
> +iface eth1 inet dhcp
> +
> +# Ethernet/RNDIS gadget (g_ether) or LAN9514 on BeagleBoard xM
> +auto usb0
> +iface usb0 inet dhcp
> +
> +# Bluetooth networking
> +iface bnep0 inet dhcp
> +