Re: [meta-oe][PATCH 1/1] busybox: remove bbappend

[Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>]

On Monday 26 August 2013 14:39:10 Khem Raj wrote:
> On Aug 24, 2013, at 2:47 AM, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
> wrote:
> > On Friday 23 August 2013 10:36:15 Khem Raj wrote:
> >> On Aug 23, 2013, at 4:33 AM, Paul Eggleton
> >> <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> >>> This bbappend has effectively been merged into OE-Core, although the
> >>> log buffer size is the busybox default rather than 64K - layers may
> >>> change this either by providing their own /etc/default/busybox-syslog
> >>> file (when using systemd) or modifying the
> >>> CONFIG_FEATURE_IPC_SYSLOG_BUFFER_SIZE option in busybox's build time
> >>> config
> >> 
> >> I think it would be better if we added this option via a kconfig fragment
> >> in OE-Core if DISTRO_FEATURES contained systemd and then remove this from
> >> here. I say this because otherwise size of circular buffer goes back to
> >> 16k from 64k and may not be enough to hold valuable info.
> > 
> > Why is this specific to systemd?
> 
> It probably is not. Otavio added it, so I am CCing him
> however this is default used in many distros, just to keep enough
> messages around while you can affort 64K buffer which is not a huge ask
> these days.

If it's generally useful and not specific to systemd (and it seems it isn't the 
latter) I'd have to say I agree, let's set the default in our busybox 
defconfig.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre