From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 23:14:20 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] configs/lego_ev3: bump kernel to 4.4 series In-Reply-To: <20161015165155.20004-1-vincent.stehle@laposte.net> (Vincent Stehle's message of "Sat, 15 Oct 2016 18:51:55 +0200") References: <20161015165155.20004-1-vincent.stehle@laposte.net> Message-ID: <87h98d71sj.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Vincent" == Vincent Stehle writes: Hi, > One remark though: the ev3dev project has a separate drivers tree > managed as a git submodule of the kernel (!) I do not really know how > to cope with that properly, so I just added a patch to repair the > build for the moment. How important are those drivers? We do actually support git submodules nowadays, but it has to be explicitly enabled per package. I'm not sure we really want to unconditionally enable it for the linux package so we would need to add a Config.in option to enable it. A nicer method might be to handle these drivers through our linux-extensions support. Take a look at linux/linux-ext-fbtft.mk and package/fbtft for an example of this. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard