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

[ChenQi]

On 08/08/2013 10:23 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
>
>
> On Wednesday, August 7, 2013, ChenQi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com 
> <mailto:Qi.Chen at windriver.com>> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Whether Chris has a patch or not this patch in its form should be 
> dropped since there is a better way to do it
>

Shipping a default configuration file or using /etc/default as the 
configuration directory? Or something else?

//Chen Qi

> >
> > 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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