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

[Otavio Salvador]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Paul Eggleton
<paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Monday 26 August 2013 14:39:10 Khem Raj wrote:
>> 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.
>
> If it's generally useful and not specific to systemd (and it seems it isn't the
> latter) I'd have to say I agree, let's set the default in our busybox
> defconfig.

+1

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