From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.pbcl.net ([88.198.119.4] helo=hetzner.pbcl.net) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SojMJ-0001hT-Ku for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 00:56:43 +0200 Received: from blundell.swaffham-prior.co.uk ([91.216.112.25] helo=[192.168.114.6]) by hetzner.pbcl.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SojBW-0004Zr-Fx for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 00:45:34 +0200 Message-ID: <1341960238.2786.103.camel@x121e.pbcl.net> From: Phil Blundell To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 23:43:58 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: <9403579097d0430a5ce2cd3bb23925fe25917a0b.1341932186.git.andrei@gherzan.ro> <1341936154.1294.3.camel@ted> X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] busybox.inc: Install hwclock init script only if rtc is present in MACHINE_FEATURES X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:56:43 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 01:15 +0300, Andrei Gherzan wrote: > And to move a little further, busybox should be configured with > CONFIG_HWCLOCK=y only if it makes sense for that MACHINE. In my > opinion this is machine specific. That's a DISTRO decision. I suspect most that have binary feeds would prefer to have a single busybox binary per architecture, and accept the few wasted bytes on machines without RTC, than to make it MACHINE specific and end up building it multiple times. Anyway, such policy belongs in your distro layer and not in oe-core. p.