[Buildroot] Kernel patches in Buildroot

[Joao Pinto <Joao.Pinto@synopsys.com>]

Dear Thomas,
Thanks, worked fine!

BR
Joao Pinto

On 11/17/2015 8:08 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> 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:
> 
>   <package-name>/<package-version>/*.patch
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Thomas
>