[Buildroot] [PATCH] kconfig: support read-only Buildroot source directories

[Erico Nunes]

Hello all,

This bug seems to be somewhat major to remain in the 2015.08 release,
as it prevents users from using a read-only buildroot source with
out-of-tree builds.

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Thanks for this patch! It looks good in principle, but is not done
> correctly. support/kconfig/ is directly inherited from the kernel
> source code, and we keep a series of patches in
> support/kconfig/patches/ to clearly identify the changes we made
> compared to the original kernel version. See
> support/kconfig/README.buildroot for details.
>
> Could you rework your patch to also add a patch to
> support/kconfig/patches/ ? Can you check whether the problem also
> exists in the kernel kconfig code, and if so, report the problem to the
> kernel developers ?
>

Hollis, did you manage to evolve this issue with the kernel developers?
Or, will you have time to work this patch before the release according
to Thomas' review?
I believe it would be a very important fix, and I could pick it in
case you are unable right now.

Thanks,

Erico