[Buildroot] [PATCH] linux: Add CIP SLTS easy selection option

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Hello,

On Sat, 4 Mar 2017 15:08:06 +0100, Angelo Compagnucci wrote:
> >  Note that the original patch did have a few issues:
> > - It should use a tag/sha rather than a branch;  
> 
> Using a tag/sha will defeat the purpose of using this kernel. A
> developer should ever use the latest release of this kernel each time
> he compiles a buildroot image.

Clearly *NOT*. We want Buildroot builds to be reproducible. So if you
take a given Buildroot version and configuration, it should *always*
provide exactly the same output. So we need to use fixed versions of
all the components.

Doing otherwise would be absolutely horrible. You do a build one day,
it works. The next day, your colleague takes your Buildroot version and
configuration, does a build, and the build fails? Or the build works,
but it no longer boots/works on the target?

So no, we clearly do not want this to use the "latest release each time
a Buildroot image is compiled".

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com