From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ludovic Desroches Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:11:53 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Patching kernel with a tarball containing multiple patches Message-ID: <4D78EA39.6000904@atmel.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, During the buildroot developer day on Friday 29th October, you have talked about the ability to use tarball containing multiple patches. I have seen that something was done to allow to use a space-separated list of patches. It's a good thing since I could download one patch and a second one. The problem is that the second one is a tarball containing multiples patches. The tar.bz2 file was not a problem for patch-kernel.sh but it simply uses a bunzip2 -cd command. Using this one instead of extracting the archive into a folder introduces some troubles since the order of the patches is not conserved. It will be great to use this option as following : BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_PATCH="ftp://my_patches.tar.bz2 patches_to_apply" Then we have all our patches for kernel 2.6.35 for example but if some of them are integrated into next revisions as 2.6.35.2, we can skip integrated patches by changing only the list. What is your point of view about it? Do I miss something (maybe I can already do that) ? Regards Ludovic Desroches