[OE-core] [PATCH V4 09/10] irda-utils: fix for read-only rootfs

[ChenQi]

On 08/07/2013 10:18 PM, Chris Larson wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 1:08 AM, <Qi.Chen at windriver.com 
> <mailto:Qi.Chen at windriver.com>> wrote:
>
>     From: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com <mailto:Qi.Chen at windriver.com>>
>
>     The init script for irda writes configuration items to
>     /etc/sysconfig/irda
>     if that file is not available in system. But it's actually not
>     necessary,
>     the behavior doesn't change whether the init script writes to the
>     file or not.
>
>     Considering it issues error messages in case of a read-only
>     rootfs, I delete
>     the writing process.
>
>     [YOCTO #4103]
>     [YOCTO #4886]
>
>     Signed-off-by: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com
>     <mailto:Qi.Chen at windriver.com>>
>
>
> This is a start, but is incomplete, from what I can tell. As mentioned 
> in the other thread, the startup script shouldn't be using 
> /etc/sysconfig/ at all, in any form. We use /etc/default/ for our 
> startup script config files, not /etc/sysconfig/.
Yeah, I agree with you.
But when I checked the irda source code, I saw that it actually could 
ship its own init script (irda-utils-xxx/etc/irda.rc). And I think our 
init script is derived from this one. In its own init script, 
/etc/sysconfig is used.
(Of course, I still think /etc/default is a better location for its 
configuration file.)


> Also, the purpose of this block was clearly to implement a default 
> configuration, yet the recipe isn't altered to ship a default 
> configuration to provide equivalent functionality.
In its source code, there's a default configuration file, and we don't 
use that. I think there might be a reason.
So I'm not sure about this one.

If you have a patch to fix the irda issue properly, send it out and I'll 
rebase my remote branch and drop this one.

Best Regards,
Chen Qi


> -- 
> Christopher Larson
> clarson at kergoth dot com
> Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
> Maintainer - Tslib
> Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics

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