From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:17:37 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] What's up with the kernel names? (Again) In-Reply-To: <1234219930.4143.16.camel@elrond.atmel.com> (Ulf Samuelsson's message of "Mon\, 09 Feb 2009 23\:52\:10 +0100") References: <873aeue676.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <1233865432.4148.6.camel@elrond.atmel.com> <87eiycarei.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <1234200240.4143.8.camel@elrond.atmel.com> <87hc3376b4.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <1234219930.4143.16.camel@elrond.atmel.com> Message-ID: <874oz27iry.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Ulf" == Ulf Samuelsson writes: Hi, >> Why? It looks like it uses LINUX26_KERNEL_NAME. >> Ulf> They work with the patches to u-boot which assumes Ulf> that the name look like they used to. Ulf> If the new naming remains, who is going to fix the u-boot patches? See, that's the problem about adding feature patches to BR. Don't expect other developers to spend time on fixing those things up. Ulf> AGAIN: How can you RETROACTIVELY set _SUFFIX/_PREFIX Ulf> if you forgot to set _SUFFIX/_PREFIX and thus Ulf> overwrote another project. Another project would have another BR2_PROJECT setting, and hence use another directory, right? That was the idea behind the project thing, wasn't it? Ulf> Which again means fixing u-boot patches. Ulf> Who is going to do that Ulf> You suggested previously that the person breaking the build Ulf> needs to fix it. Ulf> Does that still apply? For bugfixes yes, but for feature patches for some kind of hardware the developer might not have access to - No. Sure, we should try to make sure everything still works, but we also HAVE to make it easy to do so - That means among others that the various platforms should behave similary. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard