[OE-core] [PATCH] initscripts: add usleep support from RHEL

[Christopher Larson]

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Ming Liu <ming.liu at windriver.com> wrote:

> On 07/03/2014 03:39 AM, Saul Wold wrote:
>
>> On 07/02/2014 10:37 AM, Christopher Larson wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:33 AM, Ming Liu <ming.liu at windriver.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Add usleep in to support sleeping some number of microseconds.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Ming Liu <ming.liu at windriver.com>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Maybe it's just me, but initscripts seems like a horrible place to put
>>> this.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  It's not just you!  Not sure why it's being added here and I don't see
>> any usage of it, so more information is required.
>>
> Why I've sent this is because I noticed there was no usleep binary in any
> of the packages in oe repositories, and I assumed that the end user might
> like to use it in their rootfs, so I migrated it from initscripts package
> of RHEL. Anyway, if all you guys think it's not necessary and not
> appropriate, I will not insist it, we could just ignore my proposal. :)


The tool itself sounds like it could be of use, but it should likely get
its own recipe in meta-oe until/if something in oe-core actually needs it.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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