[Buildroot] Patchwork oldest patches cleanup #6 (deadline February 2)

Thomas De Schampheleire patrickdepinguin at gmail.com
Tue Jan 21 10:20:09 UTC 2014


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Stephan Hoffmann <sho at relinux.de> wrote:
[..]
>>>> Linux: enable local Linux tarball in config
>>>> Stephan Hoffmann <sho at relinux.de>
>>>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/217204
>>> Thomas, all,
>>>
>>> I still think that this would be a useful feature for buildroot,
>>> especially when dealing with soc or boards that come with a kernel
>>> tarball from the vendor that is not easily accessible online.
>>>
>> I just looked at your patch, but it is not needed to achieve what you
>> want. If you specify:
>> file:///path/to/local/file
>> then the site method will be automatically set to file (just tested).
>> Could you verify that this indeed fits your use case?
> Yes, it does, and it does with the old buildroot I had then, too. So my
> patch is obsolete, please remove it. I do not remember why I did not
> find this last year.

Ok, great that we sorted this out. I'll mark the patch as rejected in patchwork.

Thanks,
Thomas



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