Op 16 dec. 2011, om 11:52 heeft Richard Purdie het volgende geschreven:

> On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 08:35 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> Op 16 dec. 2011, om 07:14 heeft Darren Hart het volgende geschreven:
>> 
>>> By using mtools, we don't need to continue to maintain and workaround
>>> the issues generated by the -d feature included in the OE version of
>>> mkdosfstools. This reduces the number of out-of-tree patches we have to
>>> carry by 3 and eliminates a rather buggy chunk of code.
>>> 
>>> Drop the initial patch adding -d as well as those applied to improve it
>>> and those applied to work around its deficiencies.
>> 
>> The meta-ti BSP layer is depending on the -b behaviour right now :(
> 
> -b behaviour is unchanged though? ;-)

-ENOCOFFEEYET

> Serious, can you convert to mcopy like Darren does in the patch for the
> live image code?

That's the plan!

> There are some seriously nasty bugs in that -d option
> and since there is an easy replacement, I'm going to agree we should
> drop the dosfstools patches. I'm not going to take it immediately to
> give people a chance to make alternative arrangements but I do think its
> going to be the best move going forwards.

I agree completely, I was just pointing that that it is currently being used, 
so immediate removal would break at least one external layer.

regards,

Koen

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