[Buildroot] svn commit: trunk/buildroot/target/u-boot

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 06:22:46PM +0200, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
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>> Hmmm I have never seen patch.$ARCH in buildroot.
>> 
>> It's usually -$ARCH.patch like toolchain/kernel-headers
>> package/qtopia4 and others.
>
>
>If you patch with "*.patch",  then *all* architecture dependent patches will be applied
>if you use "-$ARCH.patch"
>
>You want to apply 
>* architecture independent patches
>* architecture dependent patches pertaining to your architecture.
>
>so ".patch.$ARCH" is much cleaner

The concept of per-arch patches is broken per se. You're better off to
fix or drop the dysfunctional patches.