[Buildroot] [External] Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] package/hostapd: add debug information options

[Jared Bents]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 2:02 PM Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 12:56:08 -0500
> Jared Bents <jared.bents at collins.com> wrote:
>
> > > Could you explain what CONFIG_DEBUG_FILE is doing compared to
> > > CONFIG_DEBUG_SYSLOG, and why one is conditional and not the other ? Do
> > > we really want CONFIG_DEBUG_FILE unconditionally ?
> >
> > I based it off of wpa_supplicant's implementation for each.  In
> > wpa_supplicant, CONFIG_DEBUG_FILE is turned on unconditionally while
> > CONFIG_DEBUG_SYSLOG is optional.  CONFIG_DEBUG_FILE enables a runtime
> > option (-f) to specify a file to direct the hostapd output to instead
> > of stdout.  CONFIG_DEBUG_SYSLOG enables a runtime option (-s) to have
> > the output go to syslog instead of stdout.  These are purely optional
> > at runtime as if neither of the -f or -s command line arguments are
> > used, the output will go to stdout as before.
>
> What is the size impact of each option, compared to the overall
> installation size of hostapd ?

I haven't been able to determine a size impact.  When trying to see a
size difference, I am getting sizes for hostapd varying between 1.4M
and 1.6M without any real correlation with whether I have one of the
two options selected, both selected, or neither of them selected


>
> Thomas
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Jared