[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] uboot: fix custom patch dir legacy handling

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:

 > Hello,
 > On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 22:45:49 +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

 >> > I noticed it now because we are upgrading from 2014.05 to 2016.11.  We
 >> > use both the uboot custom patch dir feature (replaced) and the linux
 >> > custom path feature (dropped, frowny face), so I'm hitting those right
 >> > now.  
 >> 
 >> Ok. The replacement for both is simply BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR (with linux
 >> patches under linux/ and u-boot patches under uboot/).

 > Not completely true: the "linux custom path" feature is not replaced by
 > BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR. If one wants to get the same functionality, i.e
 > telling Buildroot to use the Linux kernel source code from an available
 > local directory, then the only solution is to use LINUX_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR.

Sorry, I read it as 'custom patch' feature, not 'custom path'.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard