overlayfs: add docs about skipping QA check & service dependencies

Add some documentation about skipping the QA check related to missing
fstab entries or mount units for base mount points where the overlayfs
is mounted from.

Also add a short paragraph about adding a systemd unit dependency to
services in recipes, so that they are started only after the overlayfs
is mounted and ready.

No functional change.

(From OE-Core rev: 4611cbab3e9593937b64b6db48ef269de37c74db)

Signed-off-by: Claudius Heine <ch@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit 7adc49fa6fdbdf118f74e95193e80ae7ef019e27)
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/overlayfs.bbclass b/meta/classes/overlayfs.bbclass
index 29fced2ca7..f7069edd41 100644
--- a/meta/classes/overlayfs.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/overlayfs.bbclass
@@ -16,10 +16,18 @@
 #
 #   OVERLAYFS_MOUNT_POINT[data] ?= "/data"
 #
-# The class assumes you have a data.mount systemd unit defined in your
-# systemd-machine-units recipe and installed to the image.
+# Per default the class assumes you have a corresponding fstab entry or systemd
+# mount unit (data.mount in this case) for this mount point installed on the
+# image, for instance via a wks script or the systemd-machine-units recipe.
 #
-# Then you can specify writable directories on a recipe base
+# If the mount point is handled somewhere else, e.g. custom boot or preinit
+# scripts or in a initramfs, then this QA check can be skipped by adding
+# mount-configured to the related OVERLAYFS_QA_SKIP flag:
+#
+#   OVERLAYFS_QA_SKIP[data] = "mount-configured"
+#
+# To use the overlayfs, you just have to specify writable directories inside
+# their recipe:
 #
 #   OVERLAYFS_WRITABLE_PATHS[data] = "/usr/share/my-custom-application"
 #
@@ -30,6 +38,10 @@
 #   OVERLAYFS_MOUNT_POINT[mnt-overlay] = "/mnt/overlay"
 #   OVERLAYFS_WRITABLE_PATHS[mnt-overlay] = "/usr/share/another-application"
 #
+# If your recipe deploys a systemd service, then it should require and be
+# started after the ${PN}-overlays.service to make sure that all overlays are
+# mounted beforehand.
+#
 # Note: the class does not support /etc directory itself, because systemd depends on it
 # For /etc directory use overlayfs-etc class