From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 20:53:41 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] u-boot: Allow to specify a list of patches In-Reply-To: <1405448794-10517-1-git-send-email-ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar> References: <1405448794-10517-1-git-send-email-ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar> Message-ID: <20140715205341.77237719@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 Ezequiel Garcia, On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 15:26:34 -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > It's often desirable to specify a list of patches, in addition to the current > support to pass a directory full of uboot-*.patch files. This matches the > option currently available for specifying Linux patches, except this commit > doesn't add the URL option. Relying on URLs is fragile and makes a build hard > to reproduce. > > U-Boot is as special as Linux, in the sense that it needs to be customized more > often than not, so having a flexible mechanism is useful. > > Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia > --- > Config.in.legacy | 14 ++++++++++++++ > boot/uboot/Config.in | 11 ++++++----- > boot/uboot/uboot.mk | 12 ++++++++---- > 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) We now have BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR, so I believe that what we would recommend to use from now on. We have even been talking about removing the Linux-specific and U-Boot specific patching config options. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com