From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 09:16:38 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH RFC] Revert "Added local directory as source of kernel code" In-Reply-To: <20160828214805.GE5758@free.fr> References: <1467066844-28355-1-git-send-email-yann.morin.1998@free.fr> <20160827222353.02bc0df2@free-electrons.com> <87twe4aav2.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> <20160828214805.GE5758@free.fr> Message-ID: <20160829091638.1236158a@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 23:48:05 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > There are *always* users of any option we deprecate or remove. > > All we can do is make it easy for them to upgrade. Override-srcdir has > been available for ages now (5 years in September), so it's not as if > it were something new or complex to use. The only major difference being that "override source dir" is meant to be a "local" override, i.e something that developers do on their own machine, for their own development. While the existing BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_LOCAL is really about having it as part of the Buildroot configuration. But nothing prevents people from having a version-controlled local.mk, which makes it not-local anymore. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com