[Buildroot] Redundant kernel patches in the snapshot from 20070718

Bernhard Fischer rep.dot.nop at gmail.com
Fri Jul 27 10:59:21 UTC 2007


On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 04:23:18PM +0200, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am a bit confused to where I should put the kernel patch, there seems
>to be two places expecting the same file.
>
>toolchain/kernel-headers/kernel-headers-new.makefile expects them to be
>in toolchain/kernel-headers.
>
>target/linux/Makefile.in expects them to be in
>$(BR2_BOARD_PATH)/kernel-patches.
>
>AFAICT this is redundant, what is the need to put the same patches in a
>board specific folder? Should the target/linux/Makefile.in first do the
>patches in toolchain/kernel-headers and then
>$(BR2_BOARD_PATH)/kernel-patches if it exists?

yes.
as a general rant, such board-specific patches tend do break other
configurations more often than not (in my experience).

I added it for cases like a special device-driver which is not worth
downloading when building for a different arch.

HTH,



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