[OE-core] [PATCH] busybox-1.21.1/defconfig: disable rfkill

[Laszlo Papp]

Have you ever heard about project budgets and that updating a toolchain
requires a lot of testing, and hence time, money, man power?


On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Paul Barker <paul at paulbarker.me.uk> wrote:

> On 29 July 2013 11:42, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:
> > Not to mention, you would cause a "runtime" issue which is pretty simple
> to
> > fix for a very minor portion compared to a *large* user base using older
> > toolchains. There is a huge difference between a few people cannot use
> > rfkill for those applications (2, ridiculous), and that a slightly old
> > toolchain cannot even build the *whole* project.
> >
>
> Is there any reason that you need to use such an old toolchain? We
> can't expect everything we have to compile with every toolchain
> release since the start of the GNU project so we need to draw the line
> somewhere. I think the feeling is that we'd draw the line somewhere
> after the toolchain you're using (from 2009 IIRC).
>
> --
> Paul Barker
>
> Email: paul at paulbarker.me.uk
> http://www.paulbarker.me.uk
>
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