[Buildroot] [git commit] package/genimage: add patch to support vfat volume-label

[Thomas Petazzoni]

On Sun, 22 Dec 2019 21:25:38 +0100
Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com> wrote:

>  > Well, it's just a new feature that someone needs. We normally don't
>  > take feature patches, but this one is a backport from upstream.
>  > genimage also does new releases fairly infrequently, so waiting for the
>  > next release is not necessarily nice. The patch was short enough, taken
>  > directly from upstream, so I said "ok, let's take, it will anyway go
>  > away the next time we bump".  
> 
> OK, but we indeed don't take feature patches unless there is a good
> reason for it, and this commit is just syntactical sugar over adding -n
> <label> to extraargs, E.G.:
> 
> image foo.fat {
>   vfat {
>     extraargs = "-n MYLABEL"
>     ..
> }

True, I didn't know about extraargs. Really, I hesitated a bit because
of our usual policy, but then I said "meh, it's small, it's a backport
from upstream, let's not be too annoying". I can revert if needed, I
don't feel very strongly about this at all.

Thomas
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