[OE-core] [PATCH 0/5] SERIAL_CONSOLES improvements

[Koen Kooi]

Op 30 apr. 2013, om 18:52 heeft Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> het volgende geschreven:

> Having two variables to enable essentially the same behaviour isn't
> really desirable, so fix up the handling of SERIAL_CONSOLES, set it
> from SERIAL_CONSOLE by default if not set and change everwhere we read
> SERIAL_CONSOLE to read from SERIAL_CONSOLES instead. This should allow
> us to deprecate SERIAL_CONSOLE whilst retaining compatibility with
> machine configurations that still use it. 
> 
> Note: I'm a bit concerned about the default setting of SERIAL_CONSOLE in
> systemd-serialgetty; I'm not sure why this is needed given that this is
> almost always going to be machine-specific. I've left it alone for the
> time being however.

It is always machine specific, but at the time of writing SERIAL_CONSOLE wasn't being set by all machines leading to parse failures.

regards,

Koen