Bug 2875

Summary:	Kernel doesn't build Ext2 support out-of-the-box
Product:	buildroot	Reporter:	Tuukka Pasanen <tuukka.pasanen>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	unassigned
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	critical	CC:	buildroot
Priority:	P5
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Host:		Target:
Build:

Description Tuukka Pasanen 2010-12-02 07:48:29 UTC

Because kernel doesn't build Ext2 support out-of-the-box if you choose i386 for default config you can use iso-image without minor tuning of kernel .config file. This should work like initrd thing.

Comment 1 Thomas Petazzoni 2010-12-22 09:14:04 UTC

Well, in general we only try to minimally interact with the kernel configuration. For example, regardless of whether IPv6 is enabled or not at the toolchain level, we do not enforce IPv6 configuration at the kernel level. Or it's not because you have enabled the iptables package that we enforce Netfilter configuration at the kernel level. I don't think Buildroot can replace the embedded developer Linux brain and skills, it would involve too much black magic.

Therefore, I'm tempted to say that we should live it as it is in the code. But we could definitely improve the documentation.

I will not mark the bug as WONTFIX, waiting for other Buildroot developers to comment.

Comment 2 Thomas Petazzoni 2010-12-22 13:09:36 UTC

See http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2010-December/040028.html for Peter Korsgaard opinion on this, which agrees with the WONTFIX proposal.