[OE-core] util-linux hwclock ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY set to 10 for meta-nslu2 -- still needed?

Saul Wold sgw at linux.intel.com
Wed Jul 23 17:37:39 UTC 2014


On 07/23/2014 10:13 AM, Ben Shelton wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux.inc, there exists the
> following:
>
> # There seems to be problem, atleast on nslu2, with these, untill they are
> # fixed the busybox ones have higher priority
> ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY[hwclock] = "10"
>
> Is this still necessary?  Right now, we're carrying a commit in our
> local repo to change this to ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY[hwclock] ?= "100" so
> we can use the util-linux version of hwclock rather than the busybox one
> (as Saul had proposed at one point, so meta-nslu2 could override it).
>
Seems like a reasonable suggestion, I just checked the meta-nslu2 and 
there has not been a patch submitted to Khem for it, so that might need 
to happen also.

Sau!

> Thanks,
> Ben
>



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