[Buildroot] [PATCH RFC] Revert "Added local directory as source of kernel code"

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Hello,

On Mon, 12 Dec 2016 18:35:27 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:

> But what I want is to be able to use local sources fior Qt5 that I
> prepare for my board; so I'll want to add the same feature for Qt5.
> Then Thomas will want to use local sources for barebox; so he'll want to
> add the same feature for barebox. Then Peter will need it for whatever,
> so he'll want to add it for that as well...

One could however say (with good reason) that the Linux kernel, and a
few other HW-related packages (bootloaders) are special.

And indeed, for those packages (Linux, U-Boot, Barebox, etc.), we do
support fetching from custom Git/Mercurial/etc. repositories. But we
would never do that for *all* packages.

So Linux is already special compared to other packages in that respect,
and this argument could be used (and in fact was used) to add a feature
like BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_LOCAL_PATH.

But as I said, I don't really feel very strongly about this.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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