[Buildroot] [PATCH 47/55] linux: support a space-separated list of patches

[Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> writes:

 Thomas> The kernel being a component that often needs a fairly important set
 Thomas> of changes to be adapted to a particular hardware platform, having
 Thomas> maximum flexibility on the patching process is a nice
 Thomas> thing. Therefore, as per the discussions from the Buildroot Developer
 Thomas> Day, we add a mechanism to apply a list of patches (that could come
 Thomas> either from URLs, local files or local directories).

 Thomas> +	for p in $(LINUX26_PATCH) ; do \
 Thomas> +		if echo $$p | grep -q -E "^ftp://|^http://" ; then \
 Thomas> +			toolchain/patch-kernel.sh $(@D) $(DL_DIR) `basename $$p` ; \
 Thomas> +		elif test -d $$p ; then \
 Thomas> +			toolchain/patch-kernel.sh $(@D) $$p linux-\*.patch ; \
 Thomas> +		else \
 Thomas> +			toolchain/patch-kernel.sh $(@D) `dirname $$p` `basename $$p` ; \
 Thomas> +		fi \

It would be a bit more efficient to do it in shell with a case
statement, E.G.:

case "$$p" in
     http://*|http://*)
        toolchain/patch-kernel ..
        ;;

     *)
        if [ -d $$p ]; then
        ..
esac

But not a big deal.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard