[Buildroot] [PATCH v4 1/1] Added linux drivers backports project

[Petr Vorel]

Thank you Thomas for testing, thanks a lot to all of you for the comments.
Sorry that I didn't test it well, I didn't expect to be able to use 'make menuconfig'
without calling make or 'make linux-backports' before.

I send v5 where I integrated Thomass' changes. So is it blind alley (if you don't want to
tweak custom requirements), and I should try to add it as linux extension using
integration strategy?

Petr
> Dear Yann E. MORIN,

> On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 18:28:39 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:

> > Well, I would not be very happy with that, since that would make the
> > following use-case a real pain:

> >     $ make foo_defconfig
> >     $ make linux-menuconfig

> > Currently, all it needs is the linux kernel to be extracted and patched,
> > and none of its depedencies to be built. Otherwise, it would require the
> > toolchain to be built, plus a sh.tload of other stuff (lzo, for one, and
> > all its own dependencies).

> We could remove the mandatory host-lzo dependency from the linux
> package, by adding an option for that. Remember the recent patches also
> adding host-xz to the dependencies of linux, which I rejected?

> This would leave host-kmod as the only dependency of the linux package
> I believe. But well host-kmod as AUTORECONF = YES, so it pulls a whole
> bunch of crap.

> I agree that being able to do "make <foo>-menuconfig" without waiting
> too long is really a great feature.

> Thomas