From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 16:14:06 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/7] linux: use the package infrastructure to download patches In-Reply-To: <55059E3B.70108@openwide.fr> References: <1425147313-17380-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <1425147313-17380-2-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <55059E3B.70108@openwide.fr> Message-ID: <20150315161406.37b68310@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 Romain Naour, On Sun, 15 Mar 2015 15:59:07 +0100, Romain Naour wrote: > I know, it's not related to your patch but linux patches doesn't follow the new > naming convention here. > > Do we want to keep the "linux-" prefix since linux is not really a package or > get rid of it ? linux is really a package. > It would be convenient to use linux patches generated by git format-patch > command like for other packages. You in fact can already do that, if you use BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR. Regarding whether we should switch from linux-*.patch to *.patch, I don't know. It might break the build for people having various patches in the directory point by BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_PATCH. But maybe we should break the build for them at some point, and get to a situation where we are consistent. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com