[Buildroot] [PATCH v4 2/2] manual: update for multiple global patch dirs

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 17/12/13 16:02, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Ryan Barnett,
>
> On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 08:24:47 -0600, Ryan Barnett wrote:
>
>> I was going to follow-up this patch with another series that removes
>> the options PATCH_DIR options for individual packages besides the
>> kernel. When I do that, I was planning on cleaning up the
>> documentation to avoid this duplication. It was easier for right now,
>> to duplicate the section Arnout requested rather than to try to
>> figure out the best way possible for avoiding duplication.
>
> Hmm, for which packages do you want to remove the PATCH_DIR options? If
> they exist for some packages, it's quite hard to remove them, as you're
> breaking compatibility. Not sure what should be our backward
> compatibility guarantee in this kind of cases.
>
> And why "besides the kernel" ?

  Read the rest of the thread :-)

  In summary:

- For U-Boot, Barebox, maybe others there are config options which 
provide exactly the same functionality as GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR. So these 
options can be removed IMHO (with Config.in.legacy pointing to the 
GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR option).

- For the kernel, there is an option that provides a slightly different 
functionality: it allows to download patches in addition to using patches 
on the local system.


  Regards,
  Arnout


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