[OE-core] [PATCH] Remove ttyS* from /etc/inittab that are not present

[Otavio Salvador]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 22:23, McClintock Matthew-B29882
<B29882 at freescale.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Otavio Salvador
> <otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>> This enforces online use so won't work for read-only-fs.
>
> Online use is sort of the point here - I think it should be configurable though.
>
>> Please use SERIAL_CONSOLE value to write iniitab but supporting offline use
>
> Already done but sometimes we want to run the same root file system
> with boards with 1 or 2 serial ports. So we need to dynamically add or
> remove entries.
>
> I'm mostly soliciting ideas for how we detect if a serial port is
> actually present besides 'dmesg'

I see your point but add more "must be online" requirements is wrong
IMO. This could be done with a specific package that could mangle the
image at first boot if really need but doing it by default on oe-core
seems the wrong way.

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