[Buildroot] [PATCH RFC] Revert "Added local directory as source of kernel code"

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Aug 29 07:16:38 UTC 2016


Hello,

On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 23:48:05 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:

> There are *always* users of any option we deprecate or remove.
> 
> All we can do is make it easy for them to upgrade. Override-srcdir has
> been available for ages now (5 years in September), so it's not as if
> it were something new or complex to use.

The only major difference being that "override source dir" is meant to
be a "local" override, i.e something that developers do on their own
machine, for their own development. While the existing
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_LOCAL is really about having it as part of the
Buildroot configuration.

But nothing prevents people from having a version-controlled local.mk,
which makes it not-local anymore.

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