[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] uboot: fix custom patch dir legacy handling
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Dec 20 22:56:54 UTC 2016
Hello,
On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 17:55:41 -0500, Danomi Manchego wrote:
> Understood. It's just that using a custom path for boot loaders and
> the kernel is the norm for us, not an exception. In fact, I've never
> been on a project where we were able to use a main line kernel or
> uboot. Sometimes, we'll go through the exercise of making patches
> against an initial state of a vendor's git repo, but many of out
> project leaders prefer to just source control everything locally.
> Under those circumstances, it's nicer to have the local path in the
> defconfig than in a secondary local.mk or in the .mk file itself.
If your U-Boot / Linux kernel source code is under version control, why
don't you ask Buildroot to pull it from your Git/SVN/Mercurial/whatever
repository ?
Thomas
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