[Buildroot] [PATCH v4 1/1] Added linux drivers backports project

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

Thomas, Petr, All,

On 2015-04-19 11:03 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
--SNIP--]
> I wanted to apply your patch, and did a couple of updates to it (see
> below). However, there's a more fundamental problem to this package: it
> expects the linux package to be extracted/configured *before* the
> configuration of linux-backports. Unfortunately, this is not the case:
> 'linux' is only in LINUX_BACKPORTS_DEPENDENCIES, so it's only
> guaranteed to be here when linux-backports gets configured, not before.
[--SNIP--]
> I'm not sure yet of the possible solutions to this: add 'linux' to
> LINUX_BACKPORT_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES ? Use the linux extension mechanism
> as suggested by Arnout ?

Adding 'linux' to _PATCH_DEPENDENCIES will not be enough, because all
_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES guarantees is that such dependencies are extracted
and patched, not that they are configured/built or whatever.

So, the only option left would be to treat them as a linux extension,
and drop the build+install commands from linux-backports, and use the
integration strategy (instead of the packaging strategy), see:
    https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Documentation/integration

However, it seems to be quite involved...

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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