[Buildroot] [PATCH] uclibc: patch 0.9.31 for avr32, to add __kernel_long_t and __kernel_ulong_t data types

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri Nov 15 09:23:38 UTC 2013


Dear Thomas De Schampheleire,

On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 10:03:44 +0100, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:

> A few buildroot developer days ago, we said we'd like to get rid of
> architecture-specific patching. IIRC avr32 was the only architecture
> having such patches. Is it possible to make such patches 'common' in
> the sense that they are always named .patch and thus applied for all
> architectures?
> If the contents should really only be applied to avr32, is it a
> possibility to use some #ifdef inside the patch?

In the specific case of this patch, it modifies only avr32-specific
header files, so I don't quite see why it needs to be
named .patch.avr32 instead of just .patch.

Especially since anyway 0.9.31 can only be enabled for the AVR32
architecture.

Thomas
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