[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/3] Support for out-of-tree Buildroot customization

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Thomas, All,

On 2013-09-12 09:54 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire spake thusly:
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> wrote:
> > Ryan, Thomas, All,
> >
> [..]
> >
> > Yes, as I said above, I would have expected companies (well, people at
> > companies) be stressed by projects deadlines, and that they would work
> > in BR2_EXTERNAL, and only try to upstream later, when it would be too
> > late (for them!) to have proper reviews, since they would be internally
> > committed to their changes in BR2_EXTERNAL, and we would not be able to
> > take their changes.
> >
> > But if people use BR2_EXTERNAL as a fallback for anything that did not
> > make it upstream (by lack of time, or of interest), or for purely
> > internal stuff, then I don't see a reason for concern. All the better! :-)
> >
> 
> Not to ruin the atmosphere, but even though Ryan and his colleagues
> may be using BR2_EXTERNAL 'the good way', ultimately helping the
> buildroot project with their contributions, the danger of others not
> doing that is still real.

Yes, of course. Don't stop me from being optimistic for once, please! ;-)

> Of course, _not_ contributing changes made
> in a company project was also possible previously, without
> BR2_EXTERNAL, so this is no reason to block the patchset.

Quite the opposite: Thomas P. did convince me on IRC and with this
patchset (which I have already started to ack). I still have to ack
patch 2, and did not do so since I haven't yet reviewed and tested here
first.

So, no, I will not try to block this, but rather try to push it since it
is a oft-wanted feature, and Thomas P has come up with a rather sane
solution to do it the Buildroot way. This will eventually stop people
from banging their heads on this for good. :-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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