[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/linux-headers: remove 2.6 snapshot

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Mon Feb 24 17:59:22 UTC 2014


Arnout, All,

On 2014-02-24 08:07 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> On 02/23/14 21:34, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> > 
> > As Thomas states:
> >     It is completely weird to ask the tarball to be named exactly
> >     linux-2.6.tar.bz2. IMO, we should simply get rid of this feature.
> > 
> > Make it so! ;-)
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> > Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
> > ---
> >  package/linux-headers/Config.in.host | 4 ----
> >  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/package/linux-headers/Config.in.host b/package/linux-headers/Config.in.host
> > index 134e338..fcecd62 100644
> > --- a/package/linux-headers/Config.in.host
> > +++ b/package/linux-headers/Config.in.host
> > @@ -56,9 +56,6 @@ choice
> >  
> >  	config BR2_KERNEL_HEADERS_VERSION
> >  		bool "Manually specified Linux version"
> > -
> > -	config BR2_KERNEL_HEADERS_SNAP
> > -		bool "Local Linux snapshot (linux-2.6.tar.bz2)"
> >  endchoice
> >  
> >  config BR2_DEFAULT_KERNEL_VERSION
> > @@ -81,5 +78,4 @@ config BR2_DEFAULT_KERNEL_HEADERS
> >  	default "3.11.10"	if BR2_KERNEL_HEADERS_3_11
> >  	default "3.12.13"	if BR2_KERNEL_HEADERS_3_12
> >  	default "3.13.5"	if BR2_KERNEL_HEADERS_3_13
> > -	default "2.6"		if BR2_KERNEL_HEADERS_SNAP
> >  	default BR2_DEFAULT_KERNEL_VERSION if BR2_KERNEL_HEADERS_VERSION
> > 
> 
>  This is missing Config.in.legacy support. The help text of the legacy
> support should mention that the same can be achieved by using
> BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_TARBALL.

In retrospect, BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_TARBALL is for building the
kernel. It is not used to install the headers, which is what we are
doing here.

We still need to add a legacy option, though.

Regarrds,
Yann E. MORIN.

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