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From: Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
To: "Burton, Ross" <ross.burton@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>,
	Koen Kooi <koen@dominion.thruhere.net>,
	openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] tzdata: install /etc/localtime alongside /etc/timezone
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:22:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1346278937.4396.57.camel@x121e.pbcl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJTo0LZGcZHwM5cZgjFrQ9tuhw6RLN_g732wBitVgHKo8UigNQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 22:50 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> I'm curious if the people who want / and /usr on separate partitions
> that Phil refers to are a hypothetical group of people, or people who
> can chime in with their opinion.

As far as I know, only Intel have ever expressed any real interest in
having this feature work.  My recollection is that there are some
supposed "carrier grade" systems where this is, for whatever reason, a
requirement.  There's been some previous discussion on the list, see for
example:

http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2012-February/017360.html 

and the follow-ups to that message.

p.





  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-29 22:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-29 14:24 [PATCH 0/2] tzdata fixes Ross Burton
2012-08-29 14:24 ` [PATCH 1/2] tzdata: this package isn't architecture specific Ross Burton
2012-08-29 14:24 ` [PATCH 2/2] tzdata: install /etc/localtime alongside /etc/timezone Ross Burton
2012-08-29 14:47   ` Koen Kooi
2012-08-29 14:49     ` Paul Eggleton
2012-08-29 15:23     ` Burton, Ross
2012-08-29 16:50       ` Koen Kooi
2012-08-29 16:57         ` Burton, Ross
2012-08-29 17:01           ` Paul Eggleton
2012-08-29 17:31             ` Burton, Ross
2012-08-29 19:12               ` Phil Blundell
2012-08-29 19:20                 ` Burton, Ross
2012-08-29 21:38                   ` Khem Raj
2012-08-29 21:50                     ` Burton, Ross
2012-08-29 22:22                       ` Phil Blundell [this message]
2012-08-29 22:45                         ` Khem Raj
2012-08-30 10:00                         ` Burton, Ross
2012-08-30 10:21                           ` Phil Blundell
2012-08-31 14:29                         ` Phil Blundell
2012-08-31 14:34                           ` Khem Raj
2012-08-31 16:01                           ` Richard Purdie
2012-08-31 16:45                             ` Khem Raj
2012-08-31 21:31                               ` Khem Raj
2012-09-01 17:30                                 ` Andrea Adami
2012-09-04 16:28                                   ` Mark Hatle
2012-09-04 19:26                                     ` Burton, Ross
2012-09-04 19:44                                       ` Mark Hatle
2012-09-04 20:06                                         ` Burton, Ross
2012-09-04 20:40                                           ` Mark Hatle
2012-09-04 21:29                                     ` Khem Raj
2012-09-06  9:32                                       ` Paul Eggleton
2012-09-07 16:30                                         ` Khem Raj
2012-09-04 16:16                             ` Mark Hatle
2012-08-30  9:48         ` Burton, Ross
2012-08-29 14:45 ` [PATCH 0/2] tzdata fixes Koen Kooi

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