[Buildroot] [PATCH v4] package/libtalloc: new package

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello David,

On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 08:25:26 +0200
david gouarin <dgouarin at gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree, HOST_DIR is completely wrong here, I totally missed that, and I
> admit I still have difficulties formatting my patches, mainly because I
> have to work in an isolated network :)

Ah, indeed, that may be not the most efficient way of working :/

> I have however sent a new revision for both freeradius and libtalloc as a
> series using git send-email as described in the documentation,  I don't
> understand what is wrong ?

They are not numbered: you probably used "git format-patch -N", but you
shouldn't use the -N option in this case.

For patches sent to Buildroot, we want them numbered, so they clearly
appear as a series and we understand that they depend on each other.

For patches to Buildroot packages (i.e patches in package/foo/*.patch),
we want them *NOT* numbered, as otherwise the 2/3 or 5/6 numbering very
quickly gets out of date when adding/removing patches, and this
numbering is already sufficiently explicit by the name of the patches
(0001-something.patch, 0002-something-else.patch).

Perhaps this is what caused the confusion ?

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com