[Buildroot] [PATCH] uclibc: proper thread default on m68k and Microblaze

Waldemar Brodkorb wbx at openadk.org
Sun Aug 7 12:21:15 UTC 2016


Hi,
Thomas Petazzoni wrote,

> Traditionally, Buildroot has a default of enabling thread
> support. However, with the current construct of the thread choice in the
> uclibc package, the m68k and microblaze architecture end up with no
> thread support as the default.
> 
> In order to avoid having to explicit a more complicated "default" value
> for the choice, we take a simple approach:
> 
>  - The "none" choice is moved at the end of the list, so that it is not
>    selected as the default unless there is really no other thread
>    implementation available.
> 
>  - We make NPTL the default thread implementation.
> 
>  - On architectures where NPTL is not available, the NPTL option will
>    not be available, so Kconfig will automatically fallback to
>    linuxthreads.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>

Makes sense to me.
You can add:
Reviewed-by: Waldemar Brodkorb <wbx at openadk.org>

best regards
 Waldemar



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