[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/7] linux: use the package infrastructure to download patches

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sun Mar 15 15:14:06 UTC 2015


Dear Romain Naour,

On Sun, 15 Mar 2015 15:59:07 +0100, Romain Naour wrote:

> I know, it's not related to your patch but linux patches doesn't follow the new
> naming convention here.
> 
> Do we want to keep the "linux-" prefix since linux is not really a package or
> get rid of it ?

linux is really a package.

> It would be convenient to use linux patches generated by git format-patch
> command like for other packages.

You in fact can already do that, if you use BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR.

Regarding whether we should switch from linux-*.patch to *.patch, I
don't know. It might break the build for people having various patches
in the directory point by BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_PATCH. But maybe we should
break the build for them at some point, and get to a situation where we
are consistent.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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