[Buildroot] [PATCH v2] imx-uuc: add new package

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Apr 18 09:52:52 UTC 2016


Hello,

On Mon, 18 Apr 2016 11:38:00 +0200, Gary Bisson wrote:

> >         imx-uuc: new package
> >
> > (yes that's nitpicking)
> 
> No that's good to know, next time I'll make sure to name it like this.

No problem, it's easy to fix :)

> > Some of those lines were slightly too long, so I rewrapped.
> 
> What number of characters would you like to see? I always go by the
> 80-character line rule.

72 characters is our rule, including the tab+2 spaces indentation.

> > And here. I've also re-indented the init script to match the
> > indentation used in S50dropbear (which I believe is more or less our
> > reference).
> 
> Good to know too, I actually randomly copied one init script already
> present (S53neard).

Our init scripts are far from being very consistent, so no problem with
this. We should probably write down a few rules, and do a bit of
cleanup work so that they look more similar.

> > Applied with those changes, thanks!
> 
> No problem, I just want to add one thing that I discovered last week,
> there's a Linux equivalent of the MFGTools developed by Ixonos:
> https://github.com/ixonos/utp_com
> 
> It allows to do the same thing, send flashing scripts, executing
> commands, flashing partitions etc... I might add it to the host
> packages some day but it unfortunately depends on libsgutils2-dev for
> the scsi headers in order to build. Not sure what the best approach
> is.

Just create a host package for libsgutils, and make host-utp-com depend
on it.

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com



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