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Subject: Re: [RFC] How to handle external kernel patches in oe the	right way?
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On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 22:29 +0200, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
> Due to my work on OpenEZX (http://www.openezx.org) I'm in touch with
> external kernel patches used in OE to build working kernels for
> different Motorola mobile phones.
> 
> Talking with Koen about the best way to handle this we have some
> slightly different opinions on this. So we like to get some more
> opinions on this before pinning to a strategy.
> 
> Koen like to pull the patches from a known-good rev into oe to have
> them all at one place for less fragile building and tweaking.
> 
> I prefer OE to use our svn server with a fixed SRCREV which gets
> updated once a newer version is known good. I'm not a fan of
> duplicating the patches in OE if some small tweaking patches can also
> handle it.

Personally I agree with this in principle, I've never liked maintaining
kernel patches in OE directly either.

Cheers,

Richard