Re: [PATCH] connman: tist of connman do not support powerpc64

[Jack Mitchell <ml@communistcode.co.uk>]

On 26/04/13 09:07, Chunrong Guo wrote:
>      connman build for powerpc 64bit boards were producing errors like this:
>      | make[1]: *** [plugins/plugins_tist_la-tist.lo] Error 1
>      | make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>      | make: *** [all] Error 2
>      | ERROR: oe_runmake failed
>
> Signed-off-by: Chunrong Guo <B40290@freescale.com>
> ---
>   meta/recipes-connectivity/connman/connman.inc |    3 ++-
>   1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/connman/connman.inc b/meta/recipes-connectivity/connman/connman.inc
> index 589ece8..5389f3a 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/connman/connman.inc
> +++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/connman/connman.inc
> @@ -20,10 +20,11 @@ DEPENDS  = "dbus glib-2.0 ppp iptables gnutls \
>               ${@base_contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', '3g','ofono', '', d)} \
>               "
>   
> -INC_PR = "r19"
> +INC_PR = "r20"
>   
>   TIST = "--enable-tist"
>   TIST_powerpc = ""
> +TIST_powerpc64 = ""
>   
>   EXTRA_OECONF += "\
>       ac_cv_path_WPASUPPLICANT=${sbindir}/wpa_supplicant \

Is there a reason that we need to specifically enable TIST at all? This 
is quoted from one of the developers on the ConnMan list:

> it is special hardware where we need this plugin for. As I said, I was considering to remove the plugin actually. So it is safe to > disable this plugin.

> By default this plugin is actually disabled. And we do not even build test it for the releases.

I think if anyone needs it, shout up; otherwise we should go with the default and disable it.

Cheers,
Jack.
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   Jack Mitchell (jack@embed.me.uk)
   Embedded Systems Engineer
   http://www.embed.me.uk

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