[OE-core] [PATCH 01/11] libpcap: Add missing libusb dependency

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Thu Jan 24 22:49:09 UTC 2013


On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 15:42 -0700, Chris Larson wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
>         On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Richard Purdie
>         <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>         > Do we need libusb support in libpcap? What does this
>         dependency buy us
>         > and couldn't we force it off instead?
>         
>         
>         its needed to support canusb in libpcap, I would say yes we
>         should
>         support it but disabling it would be ok too although all my
>         builds
>         were silently using libusb so I think unknowingly may be but
>         we are
>         already shipping with canusb support.
> 
> I'd personally prefer it disabled, but I'd think at the very least it
> should be a PACKAGECONFIG entry, whether its included in the default
> value of PACKAGECONFIG itself or not.
> 
Agreed, PACKAGECONFIG, default off is the way to go with this IMO too.

Cheers,

Richard





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