Re: [PATCH 2/2] dosfstools: Remove initial directory contents feature

[Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>]

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On 12/15/2011 11:35 PM, Koen Kooi wrote:
> 
> Op 16 dec. 2011, om 07:14 heeft Darren Hart het volgende
> geschreven:
> 
>> By using mtools, we don't need to continue to maintain and
>> workaround the issues generated by the -d feature included in the
>> OE version of mkdosfstools. This reduces the number of
>> out-of-tree patches we have to carry by 3 and eliminates a rather
>> buggy chunk of code.
>> 
>> Drop the initial patch adding -d as well as those applied to
>> improve it and those applied to work around its deficiencies.
> 
> The meta-ti BSP layer is depending on the -b behaviour right now
> :(

- -B or -d? I'm removing only -d. If -d, could you use mcopy instead?  See
Patch 1/2 for an example of a recursive population of the image using
mcopy.  Alternatively, you could bbappend dosfstools in meta-ti to
include these patches. Obviously we don't want to remove it from oe-core
until you do one or the other, but ultimately, I think it's better that
we remove it rather than continue to carry the out-of-tree patches
forward.

Of course, we could try to convince someone to dig in and properly fix
the feature and push to get it upstream - but for licensing reasons,
we'd still be stuck carrying the patches. Since mcopy works properly
as it is, I feel it's the preferable option.

Is anyone else making use of the -d feature?

- -- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel
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