initscripts: add dmesg file to /var/log

We should create the /var/log/dmesg.log file as a default.
If we don't then a later kernel error can flush the dmesg
ring buffer, losing valuable debug information.

(From OE-Core rev: faa8cc6c2a582a32c695f3f2b0d45b6892c769fd)

Signed-off-by: Xin Ouyang <Xin.Ouyang@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jackie Huang <jackie.huang@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb
index 531b2b62df..52e1c9cc94 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Initscripts provide the basic system startup initialization scrip
 SECTION = "base"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
-PR = "r140"
+PR = "r141"
 
 INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS = "1"
 
@@ -31,7 +31,10 @@ SRC_URI = "file://functions \
            file://read-only-rootfs-hook.sh \
            file://volatiles \
            file://save-rtc.sh \
-           file://GPLv2.patch"
+           file://GPLv2.patch \
+           file://dmesg.sh \
+           file://logrotate-dmesg.conf \
+"
 
 SRC_URI_append_arm = " file://alignment.sh"
 
@@ -89,6 +92,8 @@ do_install () {
         install -m 0755    ${WORKDIR}/read-only-rootfs-hook.sh ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d
         install -m 0755    ${WORKDIR}/save-rtc.sh       ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d
         install -m 0644    ${WORKDIR}/volatiles         ${D}${sysconfdir}/default/volatiles/00_core
+        install -m 0755    ${WORKDIR}/dmesg.sh          ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d
+        install -m 0644    ${WORKDIR}/logrotate-dmesg.conf ${D}${sysconfdir}/
 
         if [ "${TARGET_ARCH}" = "arm" ]; then
                 install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/alignment.sh ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d