[OE-core] [PATCH] lmsensors: Initial commit.

[Marc Ferland]

Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:29:21AM +0000, Patrick Turley wrote:
>> On Oct 16, 2012, at 6:28 PM, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> 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