From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-qc0-f175.google.com ([209.85.216.175]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TOTcw-0007aH-To for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:25:39 +0200 Received: by mail-qc0-f175.google.com with SMTP id j3so5981335qcs.6 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 06:12:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:from:to:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=iTY7bRWauL+yHAUtWldkhfvFJ3pmAsccR+4qgt+hzEI=; b=c51tK0MAEnsuJ4BK8lAX1Yp89BLTZOvFAtUxwEOM4kkZdR52uLSIa1paQY0HVTCK8q KMcjswlJQm+hI3WvxXxdSzvUbOdM0i6rSs2ScexAgPIZKAqUHcPoiH+0v51yEYs5IUbY ZNcaV3nnEt0ndvhV6WixcsU+zQ8Sd3Gs+zfxuqfQP4UcUcg7zaTPvv9Q5jrzKhvISlyL OwvDu2v86xiB+v3OCQjA2l+RfxPay8dQ8QTZ6vqI2P3NDXRvmn2TooXRT22gWMIz+7VT jKHd18dJZ/t/L+uaG6i/S/c3enQ1C3UJyPco1Q6QuWr0jyHzWb73EqOivUGrRza138Nb NuCw== Received: by 10.49.127.115 with SMTP id nf19mr42330656qeb.36.1350479540370; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 06:12:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ferlandm@sonatest.com (modemcable066.15-37-24.static.videotron.ca. [24.37.15.66]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id jw1sm19642264qeb.13.2012.10.17.06.12.10 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 17 Oct 2012 06:12:17 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Marc Ferland Received: by ferlandm@sonatest.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 17 Oct 2012 09:12:12 -0400 From: Marc Ferland To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org References: <1350424046-18863-1-git-send-email-ferlandm@sonatest.com> <1350424046-18863-2-git-send-email-ferlandm@sonatest.com> <20121016223739.GB3405@jama.jama.net> <71077863.US7FUzvX2E@helios> <242F788A-5F02-496B-B9DF-F8F3B0633992@gamestop.com> <20121017073136.GF3405@jama.jama.net> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 09:12:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20121017073136.GF3405@jama.jama.net> (Martin Jansa's message of "Wed, 17 Oct 2012 09:31:36 +0200") Message-ID: <871ugx9r9v.fsf@sonatest.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] lmsensors: Initial commit. X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:25:39 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain Martin Jansa writes: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:29:21AM +0000, Patrick Turley wrote: >> On Oct 16, 2012, at 6:28 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote: >> >> > On Wednesday 17 October 2012 00:37:39 Martin Jansa wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 05:47:26PM -0400, Marc Ferland wrote: >> >>> Adds the lm_sensors applications. These consists of: >> >> Is it really needed in oe-core? why not meta-oe? >> > >> > I'm thinking meta-oe is the place for this. As a bonus, rrdtool is already >> > there. >> >> I am not qualified to have an opinion either way - but I *am* >> curious about the motivating rationale. What are the reasons that >> this should appear in meta-oe? > > oe-core as *core* for other layers, should have only the most important > metadata which are needed for all other layers, like toolchain etc. > > A lot of embedded images does not include or need lmsensors, so it's > kind of extra package which does not need to be included in *core*. > Thanks for the clarification Martin. But looking at oe-core/meta/recipe-bsp I see things like acpid, libacpi, pcimciautils, etc. I am wondering what makes lmsensors so much different than these tools? Regards, Marc