[Buildroot] [PATCH v4 2/2] manual: update for multiple global patch dirs

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Dec 17 15:02:07 UTC 2013


Dear Ryan Barnett,

On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 08:24:47 -0600, Ryan Barnett wrote:

> I was going to follow-up this patch with another series that removes
> the options PATCH_DIR options for individual packages besides the
> kernel. When I do that, I was planning on cleaning up the
> documentation to avoid this duplication. It was easier for right now,
> to duplicate the section Arnout requested rather than to try to
> figure out the best way possible for avoiding duplication.

Hmm, for which packages do you want to remove the PATCH_DIR options? If
they exist for some packages, it's quite hard to remove them, as you're
breaking compatibility. Not sure what should be our backward
compatibility guarantee in this kind of cases.

And why "besides the kernel" ?

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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