From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 16:15:08 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/7] linux: use the package infrastructure to download patches In-Reply-To: <20150315161406.37b68310@free-electrons.com> References: <1425147313-17380-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <1425147313-17380-2-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <55059E3B.70108@openwide.fr> <20150315161406.37b68310@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <550EDC7C.5000205@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 15/03/15 16:14, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: >> > It would be convenient to use linux patches generated by git format-patch >> > command like for other packages. > You in fact can already do that, if you use BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR. > > Regarding whether we should switch from linux-*.patch to *.patch, I > don't know. It might break the build for people having various patches > in the directory point by BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_PATCH. But maybe we should > break the build for them at some point, and get to a situation where we > are consistent. I would say, break the build. But in a separate patch of course :-) Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F