From: Ross Burton Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:59:00 +0000 (+0000) Subject: systemd-serialgetty: add comments explaining use X-Git-Tag: uninative-4.7~217 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bbaafe11189b4b14ab84576e5eddd709b7f0ef1b;p=thirdparty%2Fopenembedded%2Fopenembedded-core.git systemd-serialgetty: add comments explaining use Add some comments to clarify exactly what this recipe is for. Signed-off-by: Ross Burton Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-serialgetty.bb b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-serialgetty.bb index 9035b8c335a..7b525b10f0c 100644 --- a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-serialgetty.bb +++ b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-serialgetty.bb @@ -1,8 +1,13 @@ -SUMMARY = "Serial terminal support for systemd" +SUMMARY = "Serial terminal support for systemd (using SERIAL_CONSOLES)" HOMEPAGE = "https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/" LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later" LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/files/common-licenses/GPL-2.0-only;md5=801f80980d171dd6425610833a22dbe6" +# Note that this recipe explicitly creates a serial-getty@ service for every tty +# in SERIAL_CONSOLES. This is typically not always needed with systemd as it +# will probe at boot and generate getty instances for any active consoles as +# required. This recipe (enabled via disabling serial-getty-generator in systemd) +# should only be used if the generator is not appropriate. SERIAL_CONSOLES ?= "115200;ttyS0" SERIAL_TERM ?= "linux"