[Buildroot] [PATCH] rtai: remove option BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_EXT_RTAI_PATCH

[Thomas Petazzoni]

This commit removes BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_EXT_RTAI_PATCH because this
option never worked. It was added in commit
8797a9cd1fe6723db34b0c125d0d9d04e3483e8d, which added package/rtai/
and RTAI as a Linux extension.

The option prompt says "Path for RTAI patch file", so let's say you
specify /home/foo/bar/myrtai.patch as the value for
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_EXT_RTAI_PATCH.

Then the code does:

RTAI_PATCH = $(call qstrip,$(BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_EXT_RTAI_PATCH))

and we have a package called 'rtai', so the normal logic of
<pkg>_PATCH applies. Since the <pkg>_PATCH value does not contain
ftp://, http:// or https://, the package infrastructure will try to
download $(RTAI_SITE)/$(RTAI_PATCH), i.e:

   https://www.rtai.org/userfiles/downloads/RTAI/home/foo/bar/myrtai.patch

Pretty clear that it has no chance of working.

Now, let's assume an URL is used as the value of
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_EXT_RTAI_PATCH, such as
http://foo.com/bar/myrtai.patch. In this case, it will be properly
downloaded by the package infrastructure. But then, the following code
kicks in:

define RTAI_PREPARE_KERNEL
       $(APPLY_PATCHES)                        \
               $(LINUX_DIR)                    \
               $(dir $(RTAI_PATCH))            \
               $(notdir $(RTAI_PATCH))
endef

The value of $(dir $(RTAI_PATCH)) will be http://foo.com/bar/. How
can $(APPLY_PATCHES) make use of such a stupid patch location?

Bottom line is that this feature has never worked, so there is not
even a point in adding Config.in.legacy support for it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
---
 linux/Config.ext.in     |  6 ------
 linux/linux-ext-rtai.mk | 11 -----------
 2 files changed, 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/linux/Config.ext.in b/linux/Config.ext.in
index c909254..ea79aa1 100644
--- a/linux/Config.ext.in
+++ b/linux/Config.ext.in
@@ -44,12 +44,6 @@ config BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_EXT_RTAI
 	help
 	  RTAI Kernel part.
 
-config BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_EXT_RTAI_PATCH
-	depends on BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_EXT_RTAI
-	string "Path for RTAI patch file"
-	help
-	  Optionally, explicitly specify the RTAI patch to use.
-
 # fbtft
 config BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_EXT_FBTFT
 	bool "FB TFT drivers"
diff --git a/linux/linux-ext-rtai.mk b/linux/linux-ext-rtai.mk
index 07e7a19..0cc1232 100644
--- a/linux/linux-ext-rtai.mk
+++ b/linux/linux-ext-rtai.mk
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@
 
 LINUX_EXTENSIONS += rtai
 
-RTAI_PATCH = $(call qstrip,$(BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_EXT_RTAI_PATCH))
-
 ifeq ($(KERNEL_ARCH),i386)
 RTAI_ARCH = x86
 else ifeq ($(KERNEL_ARCH),x86_64)
@@ -19,7 +17,6 @@ RTAI_ARCH = $(KERNEL_ARCH)
 endif
 
 # Prepare kernel patch
-ifeq ($(RTAI_PATCH),)
 define RTAI_PREPARE_KERNEL
 	kver=`$(MAKE) $(LINUX_MAKE_FLAGS) -C $(LINUX_DIR) --no-print-directory -s kernelversion` ; \
 	if test -f $(RTAI_DIR)/base/arch/$(RTAI_ARCH)/patches/hal-linux-$${kver}-*patch ; then \
@@ -31,11 +28,3 @@ define RTAI_PREPARE_KERNEL
 		exit 1 ; \
 	fi
 endef
-else
-define RTAI_PREPARE_KERNEL
-	$(APPLY_PATCHES) 			\
-		$(LINUX_DIR)			\
-		$(dir $(RTAI_PATCH))		\
-		$(notdir $(RTAI_PATCH))
-endef
-endif
-- 
2.1.0