[Buildroot] [PATCH] busybox: rename patches as per the new standard and update 1.21.0 mdev

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Tue Apr 23 21:42:05 UTC 2013


>>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> writes:

 Arnout> On 23/04/13 16:04, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
 >>>>>>> "Gustavo" == Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo at zacarias.com.ar> writes:
 >> 
 Gustavo> Rename patches as per the patch naming policy and update the
 Gustavo> mdev fix patch for 1.21.0 which reinstates subsystem matching
 Gustavo> functionality.
 >> 
 >> Sorry, I disagree with this rename. I know this is what we discussed at
 >> the dev day, but it imho makes more sense to use the upstream naming
 >> convention for busybox:
 >> 
 >> http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.21.0/

 Arnout>  Actually, if upstream has the patches available for download,
 Arnout> they should be downloaded instead of of included in buildroot,
 Arnout> no?

True. For busybox our patch download infrastructure unfortunately
doesn't work as the patches aren't located in the same directory as the
tarball (and the fact that we support multiple versions also makes it a
bit more complicated).

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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