[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-demos][PATCH 2/3] sysvinit: auto detect hostname for qoriq machines

[Otavio Salvador]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 5:28 AM, Zhenhua Luo <zhenhua.luo at freescale.com> wrote:
> If a rootfs only contains core specific pkgs (no machine specific
> ones), it is convenient and possible to share a common rootfs image
> for all the machines with same core.
>
> Add a patch (only works for fsl qoriq boards) to auto set hostname.
>
> Also add support to set hostname via bootargs/cmdline.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ting Liu <ting.liu at freescale.com>
> Signed-off-by: Zhenhua Luo <zhenhua.luo at freescale.com>

I don't think this is something advisable to do. This is something
that I don't see as generic but a Freescale-internal specific
requirement. I understand why this is desired internally but we need
to bear in mind that the public bits are intended to be used by
regular users and likely taken as the right way of doing things.
Reusing the rootfs may or not work depending on the technical details,
legal details (licensing, for example) so it is not something we can
say it would work for vast majority of users.

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