[Buildroot] Naming convention for patches

[Buildroot] Naming convention for patches

[Johan Oudinet]

Hi All,

In 9.8. Adding project-specific patches:
"Otherwise, patch files matching <packagename>-*.patch are applied in
alphabetical order."

This naming convention has been changed in buildroot, so we can use
the name provided by git format-patch (i.e., without prefixing it by
the package name).
Is this pattern still required for patches inside
BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR, or is it simply a mistake from the
documentation?

Thanks.
-- 
Johan

[Buildroot] Naming convention for patches

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Johan Oudinet,

On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 17:57:43 +0100, Johan Oudinet wrote:

> In 9.8. Adding project-specific patches:
> "Otherwise, patch files matching <packagename>-*.patch are applied in
> alphabetical order."
> 
> This naming convention has been changed in buildroot, so we can use
> the name provided by git format-patch (i.e., without prefixing it by
> the package name).
> Is this pattern still required for patches inside
> BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR, or is it simply a mistake from the
> documentation?

This is a mistake, and I've sent a patch that fixes it:

  http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/455879/

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com