From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:04:17 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] apply-patches.sh: use series file to apply patches in proper order In-Reply-To: <4F606AF2.2010400@atmel.com> References: <1331233872-31746-1-git-send-email-ludovic.desroches@atmel.com> <20120312085752.GB444@game.jcrosoft.org> <4F5F4624.1000607@free.fr> <20120313212337.GE2725@ldesroches-Latitude-E6320> <20120314085935.GK444@game.jcrosoft.org> <4F606AF2.2010400@atmel.com> Message-ID: <20120314110417.1b120452@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Le Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:54:58 +0100, Nicolas Ferre a ?crit : > I would say: why? > > This patch series has been discussed for months. Now we have the > discussion about using another external tool. It seems to me that this > discussion can easily go on top of current patch series which > currently does the job. > Please do not delay again a feature that we need and the enhancements > provided by Ludovic's patches. Yes quilt can be good, but it is a new > enhancement that can go on top of this work: provide a patch that adds > this quilt enabled feature and then, we can talk about: > - the relative benefit of your solution > - the opportunity to add another host tool dependency > - the amount of code touched by your enhancement > - etc. I definitely agree with Nicolas here. Ludovic's set of patches have been around for months and months, and both Atmel and Armadeus need this feature. It would be great if we could make progress on this. Additional improvements can be done later (even though I'm personally not sure we want to depend on quilt). Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com