[OE-core] [PATCH] busybox: Enable FEATURE_MOUNT_NFS and use libtirpc

[Martin Jansa]

On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 10:39:16AM -0700, Andre McCurdy wrote:
>  On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 12:26 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 5/10/18 12:16 PM, Martin Jansa wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On second thought, this probably should be enabled using a config
> >>> fragment, since its not gonna link in another library it may not be
> >>> common case to justify for a default config.
> >>
> >> That's true, I've enabled CONFIG_FEATURE_MOUNT_NFS mostly to show how to
> >> reproduce the issue.
> >>
> >> If there isn't interest to enable this by default, I'm fine with keeping
> >> this
> >> locally (to enable it only with our defconfig changes which enable it).
> >
> > I think keeping it as a nfsmount.cfg which then can be applied via a
> > bbappend could be a good option. May be adding a PACKAGECONFIG to control
> > the -I flag and libtirpc dependency would be nice too
> 
> According to the busybox config help, CONFIG_FEATURE_MOUNT_NFS is only
> required for kernel versions before 2.6.23. Do we officially support
> kernels that old in oe-core? Or should this be in a .bbappend etc in
> separate layer?

OK, I agree that this should be kept in separate layer. If anyone needs
it, the working version (with tirpc added in CONFIG_EXTRA_LDLIBS) is
attached.

> //config:config FEATURE_MOUNT_NFS
> //config:    bool "Support mounting NFS file systems on Linux < 2.6.23"
> //config:    default n
> //config:    depends on MOUNT
> //config:    select FEATURE_SYSLOG
> //config:    help
> //config:    Enable mounting of NFS file systems on Linux kernels prior
> //config:    to version 2.6.23. Note that in this case mounting of NFS
> //config:    over IPv6 will not be possible.
> //config:
> //config:    Note that this option links in RPC support from libc,
> //config:    which is rather large (~10 kbytes on uclibc).

-- 
Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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