Re: [PATCH] initscripts: add usleep support from RHEL

[Ming Liu <ming.liu@windriver.com>]

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On 07/03/2014 11:45 AM, Christopher Larson wrote:
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> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Ming Liu <ming.liu@windriver.com 
> <mailto:ming.liu@windriver.com>> wrote:
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>     On 07/03/2014 03:39 AM, Saul Wold wrote:
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>         On 07/02/2014 10:37 AM, Christopher Larson wrote:
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>             On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:33 AM, Ming Liu
>             <ming.liu@windriver.com <mailto:ming.liu@windriver.com>>
>             wrote:
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>                 Add usleep in to support sleeping some number of
>                 microseconds.
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>                 Signed-off-by: Ming Liu <ming.liu@windriver.com
>                 <mailto:ming.liu@windriver.com>>
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>             Maybe it's just me, but initscripts seems like a horrible
>             place to put this.
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>         It's not just you!  Not sure why it's being added here and I
>         don't see any usage of it, so more information is required.
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>     Why I've sent this is because I noticed there was no usleep binary
>     in any of the packages in oe repositories, and I assumed that the
>     end user might like to use it in their rootfs, so I migrated it
>     from initscripts package of RHEL. Anyway, if all you guys think
>     it's not necessary and not appropriate, I will not insist it, we
>     could just ignore my proposal. :)
>
>
> The tool itself sounds like it could be of use, but it should likely 
> get its own recipe in meta-oe until/if something in oe-core actually 
> needs it.
Got it, thanks! I will do that.

the best,
thank you
> -- 
> Christopher Larson
> clarson at kergoth dot com
> Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
> Maintainer - Tslib
> Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics


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