[OE-core] [PATCH] busybox: import the configuration from openembedded.dev

[Eric Bénard]

Le 05/09/2011 18:04, Phil Blundell a écrit :
> On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 17:51 +0200, Denis Carikli wrote:
>> Without that patch many applets are not build, like for instance
>>    mdev, which could be necessary for building certain images.
>
> If your distro needs mdev then you should probably supply your own
> busybox config which turns it on.  For modern kernels mdev is probably
> redundant since you will usually be better off with devtmpfs.
>
mdev is not simply a device node creator and can be used for example for 
firmware loading, touchscreen symbolic link creation for tslib or automatic 
mount of inserted medias

> Or, conversely, if you feel that a particular change is important enough
> that it really needs to go into the global busybox config for oe-core,
> please send a patch which makes just that one change.  The patch you
> sent flips a large set of of seemingly-random switches, for example:
>
true, I think we will handle this defconfig in our layer that will be easier.

Eric