[Buildroot] Fetching kernel via git

[William Wagner]

On 01/02/2010 00:51, Cameron Hutchison wrote:
> Is there some way to configure buildroot to fetch the kernel sources
> via git?
>    

Patches have been posted on the mailing list before. See 
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2010-January/031499.html 
for most recent.

Will try to clean up my patch and submit it shortly.

Will
> I am currently downloading my third complete kernel source tree for
> 2.6.32.7, previously having downloaded 2.6.23.3 and 2.6.31.6.
>
> I keep a git repository with a clone of Linus's public tree and the
> stable trees, so it would save greatly on bandwidth and time if
> buildroot could clone the kernel from that local repository instead of
> downloading a source tarball every time the extraversion bumps up a
> version.
>
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