[Buildroot] [PATCH 3/4] fs/ext2: rename to 'ext' as it can now build ext2/3/4 filesystems
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Tue Feb 19 17:54:41 UTC 2013
Arnout, All,
On Tuesday 19 February 2013 Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> On 18/02/13 00:10, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > Update defconfigs and boards readmes accordingly.
>
> I don't really like this. I think it falls in the category "yes it
> would make things more consistent, but it's major API breakage that may
> make upgrading unnecessarily difficult". Peter decided to be more careful
> with that kind of changes, and rightly so.
I'm not too fond of it either, but I'm more on the consistency line.
> That said, I would like it if the resulting image would be called
> rootfs.ext3 instead of rootfs.ext2. However, the patch doesn't do that,
> and the infrastructure currently doesn't allow it. But we could redefine
> ROOTFS_TARGET:
>
> define ROOTFS_TARGET
> $(call ROOTFS_TARGET_INTERNAL,$(or $(2),$(1)),$(call UPPERCASE,$(1)))
> endef
>
> and then call it with
>
> $(call ROOTFS_TARGET,ext2,ext$(BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_GEN))
Work for another patch, then. I'll queue.
> It would also be useful to convert some of the boards to ext4.
I am not able to decide whether a boards boot process would allow booting
off ext4, so I won't change the defconfigs.
[--SNIP--]
> This rename is useful, though, and it shouldn't hurt anyone. If anyone
> is using it, it will be pretty clear what happened, and it wil draw their
> attention to the new features of genextfs.sh.
And it would warrant a entry in the legacy section, too.
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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