[yocto] [PATCH] Gracefully abort if rootfs.img gets to big

[Chris Hallinan]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Paul Eggleton
<paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> Great to see you at ELC!
>
> On Monday 30 March 2015 19:17:46 Chris Hallinan wrote:
>> Great catching up with you last week, and thanks for looking at my
>> patch.  I supposed it's a double edged sword.  If we make it a
>> variable, it can be set wrong and the build hang again.  OTOH, 128MB
>> is probably way more space than we really need to reserve, and I
>> supposed if someone were just banging up against the limit, they might
>> want to tweak it.  I'll defer to the collective judgement of the
>> group, and resubmit if that's the consensus.
>
> Is there any practical way we can measure the actual size of these files?

I gave this some thought after Armin's comment, and yes, maybe there
is a way to estimate the size available. I'll look further into it.

>
>> Oh, and silly me...I figured the mail list daemon would put the
>> [Yocto] tag on the patch. Since it seems to tag our posts, that is a
>> mystery to me.
>
> The mailing list always prepends the list name to the subject of posted
> messages.

That what I thought, too.  Wonder why it didn't prepend the list name
to this patch?


> A few other notes:
>
> 1) This patch should be sent to the openembedded-core at lists.openembedded.org
> mailing list rather than here.

Ah, wasn't sure about that, thanks!

>
> 2) The YP bugzilla reference should be of the format [YOCTO #7541] .
>
> 3) The shortlog (first line of the commit message / subject) should be prefixed
> with the area/file the patch is changing i.e. for this one it should be
> "bootimg.bbclass: gracefully abort if rootfs.img gets to big".

Thanks for the guidance. As you can see, I'm not experienced at
sending patches!  I'll investigate and re-send to oe-core@

Regards,

Chris