One might think that the technical changes here are "completely insignificant", but in fact there has been quite a lot of interaction between systemd and the BusyBox world over the years. With those as context, the headlined patch appears in rather a different perspective. Some examples:
* Denys Vlasenko is the person removing the ability for syslogd to inherit its socket (via a systemd mechanism) in the headlined patch. Here is the very same person adding that same code in the first place, back in 2011: http://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=9b3b9790b32d440eb8...
* http://superuser.com/a/699401/38062
* http://buildroot.uclibc.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#_in...
One might think that the technical changes here are "completely insignificant", but in fact there has been quite a lot of interaction between systemd and the BusyBox world over the years. With those as context, the headlined patch appears in rather a different perspective. Some examples:
* Davide Cavalca's patches from 2011 adding socket inheritance to BusyBox's syslogd, some options to hwclock, and some units: http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2011-January/0743...
* Davide Cavalca's patches from 2012 disabling some log services in favour of the systemd journal: http://openbricks-commits.narkive.com/jCnYGx8H/r13814-busybo...
* Peter Korsgaard's patch to avahi for BusyBox-rootfs disabling things that uClibc did not have, from 2010: https://github.com/enclustra-bsp/busybox-rootfs/blob/4e302ac...
* Peter Seiderer's patch adding a PostgreSQL systemd unit to uClibc buildroot in 2014: http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2014-May/097163... ( approved in 2015: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=828d7b2f0d2288... )
* Albert Antony's BusyBox patch from 2015 to add crond.service: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.embedded.ptxdist.devel...
* Denys Vlasenko is the person removing the ability for syslogd to inherit its socket (via a systemd mechanism) in the headlined patch. Here is the very same person adding that same code in the first place, back in 2011: http://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=9b3b9790b32d440eb8...