From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 21:08:17 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Kernel patches in Buildroot In-Reply-To: <564B603B.5010907@synopsys.com> References: <56432809.3000902@synopsys.com> <56432ED3.7070008@mind.be> <564B0BBE.8050102@synopsys.com> <564B603B.5010907@synopsys.com> Message-ID: <20151117210817.26557c68@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 Joao Pinto, On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 17:13:31 +0000, Joao Pinto wrote: > BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR="snps-custom/packages" > > I have a "snps-custom" folder which has a "packages" folder inside. Inside the > "packages" folder we have a folder for each package we need to patch, in this > example mplayer and the linux kernel. > > --snps-custom > --packages > --linux-arc-axs101-20141021-3.13 Call this folder just "linux". The folder must be named after the package name, and not contains some additional version information. If you want to store patches for several versions of the same package, you must use the same organization as in Buildroot itself: //*.patch Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com