From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 22:15:49 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] fio: fix missing fallocate64() In-Reply-To: <537A5CD4.70500@frajasalo.de> References: <1399668168-4521-1-git-send-email-frank@frajasalo.de> <20140512214442.014f1eb5@free-electrons.com> <537A5CD4.70500@frajasalo.de> Message-ID: <20140519221549.09b43dbf@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Frank Bergmann, On Mon, 19 May 2014 21:34:44 +0200, Frank Bergmann wrote: > On 12.05.2014 21:44, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > > Dear Frank Bergmann, > > > > On Fri, 9 May 2014 22:42:48 +0200, Frank Bergmann wrote: > > > >> +ifeq ($(BR2_nios2),y) > >> +BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR += "board/common-nios2" > >> +endif > > > > Unfortunately, we don't want to have architecture-specific patches, and > > not applied with this mechanism. > > Sorry I didn't take notice of that. > Maybe someone could edit chapter 3.4.4 "Customizing packages" > (http://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#packages-custom) > where such architecture-specific patches are mentioned to avoid > misinterpreting it like I did. I don't think chapter 3.4.4 is wrong, but the BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR is not meant to be used by Buildroot upstream itself. It's a way for Buildroot *users* to apply their own custom patches on top of the various packages that Buildroot has. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com