[oe] [meta-oe][PATCH 1/1] busybox: remove bbappend

[Khem Raj]

On Aug 24, 2013, at 2:47 AM, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:

> On Friday 23 August 2013 10:36:15 Khem Raj wrote:
>> On Aug 23, 2013, at 4:33 AM, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> This bbappend has effectively been merged into OE-Core, although the
>>> log buffer size is the busybox default rather than 64K - layers may
>>> change this either by providing their own /etc/default/busybox-syslog
>>> file (when using systemd) or modifying the
>>> CONFIG_FEATURE_IPC_SYSLOG_BUFFER_SIZE option in busybox's build time
>>> config
>> 
>> I think it would be better if we added this option via a kconfig fragment
>> in OE-Core if DISTRO_FEATURES contained systemd and then remove this from
>> here. I say this because otherwise size of circular buffer goes back to 16k
>> from 64k and may not be enough to hold valuable info.
> 
> Why is this specific to systemd?

It probably is not. Otavio added it, so I am CCing him
however this is default used in many distros, just to keep enough
messages around while you can affort 64K buffer which is not a huge ask
these days.
 

> 
> Cheers,
> Paul
> 
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> 
> Paul Eggleton
> Intel Open Source Technology Centre