From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp2-g21.free.fr ([212.27.42.2]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1R0bsB-0006yM-4j for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:18:11 +0200 Received: from [192.168.1.15] (unknown [82.240.38.71]) by smtp2-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 500184B00C1 for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2011 18:13:09 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4E64F514.5050203@eukrea.com> Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:13:08 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Eric_B=E9nard?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0.1) Gecko/20110830 Thunderbird/6.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer References: <1315237881-14077-1-git-send-email-denis@eukrea.com> <1315238669.2519.21.camel@phil-desktop> In-Reply-To: <1315238669.2519.21.camel@phil-desktop> Subject: Re: [PATCH] busybox: import the configuration from openembedded.dev X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:18:11 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Le 05/09/2011 18:04, Phil Blundell a =E9crit : > On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 17:51 +0200, Denis Carikli wrote: >> Without that patch many applets are not build, like for instance >> mdev, which could be necessary for building certain images. > > If your distro needs mdev then you should probably supply your own > busybox config which turns it on. For modern kernels mdev is probably > redundant since you will usually be better off with devtmpfs. > mdev is not simply a device node creator and can be used for example for=20 firmware loading, touchscreen symbolic link creation for tslib or automat= ic=20 mount of inserted medias > Or, conversely, if you feel that a particular change is important enoug= h > that it really needs to go into the global busybox config for oe-core, > please send a patch which makes just that one change. The patch you > sent flips a large set of of seemingly-random switches, for example: > true, I think we will handle this defconfig in our layer that will be eas= ier. Eric