Re: [docs] [PATCH v3] ref-manual: Add missing variable IMAGE_ROOTFS_MAXSIZE

["Antonin Godard" <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>]

Hi Pascal,

On Thu Feb 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM CET, Pascal.ext via lists.yoctoproject.org Weisser wrote:
> This patch adds the missing documentation of variable IMAGE_ROOTFS_MAXSIZE
> to the reference manual.
>
> Signed-off-by: Weisser, Pascal <pascal.weisser.ext@karlstorz.com>
> ---
>  documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
> index 47d4e814f..889944b0a 100644
> --- a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
> +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
> @@ -3984,6 +3984,12 @@ system and gives an overview of their function and contents.
>  
>           IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE = "41943040"
>  
> +   :term:`IMAGE_ROOTFS_MAXSIZE`
> +       Defines the maximum size in Kbytes for the generated image. If the
> +       generated image size is above that, the build will fail. It's a good
> +       idea to set this variable for images that need to fit on a limited
> +       space (e.g. SD card, a fixed-size partition, ...).

Here the indentation should be three spaces (compared to ":term:"), not four.

> +
>     :term:`IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE`
>        Defines the size in Kbytes for the generated image. The OpenEmbedded
>        build system determines the final size for the generated image using

Thanks for this, I'm surprised this wasn't documented already :)

Antonin

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