From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephan Hoffmann Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:58:53 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Patchwork oldest patches cleanup #6 (deadline February 2) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <52DE28BD.8020306@relinux.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Am 20.01.2014 22:06, schrieb Thomas De Schampheleire: > All, > > Here is session 6 of the patchwork cleanup. For those who haven't > followed previous sessions, here is a quick recap: every session we'll > be posting the list of the 10 oldest patches, with the original patch > contributors in copy. During two weeks, we have the opportunity to > discuss the patch, whether it is still necessary or not, how it should > be changed to be merged. > > In particular, I'm interested in knowing if the original contributor is > still interested by the patch, or if someone else is interested in > adopting the patch and sending an updated version, or if the patch no > longer makes sense due to other changes made in Buildroot. ..... > ... > > Linux: enable local Linux tarball in config > Stephan Hoffmann > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/217204 Thomas, all, I still think that this would be a useful feature for buildroot, especially when dealing with soc or boards that come with a kernel tarball from the vendor that is not easily accessible online. I made this patch because I had this situation in one of my projects. If there is interest in committing it I think that I can spare some time to rebase it to the current HEAD. Kind regards Stephan > > > Thanks in advance for your feedback! > > Thomas