initscripts: populate-volatile: improve config file parsing

This improves the config file parsing to permit blank lines and
comments following an entry or preceeded by whitespace.

(From OE-Core rev: 415eaacb83b1c6df5210fb423e3e96e530b1dc42)

Signed-off-by: Mans Rullgard <mans@mansr.com>
Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/volatiles b/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/volatiles
index 297245d0e4..bc17c4553d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/volatiles
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/volatiles
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 # This configuration file lists filesystem objects that should get verified
 # during startup and be created if missing.
 #
-# Every line must either be a comment starting with #
-# or a definition of format:
+# Entries have the following format:
 # <type> <owner> <group> <mode> <path> <linksource>
 # where the items are separated by whitespace !
 #
+# The # character introduces a comment lasting until end of line.
+# Blank lines are ignored.
+#
 # <type> : d|f|l : (d)irectory|(f)ile|(l)ink
 #
 # A linking example: