[Buildroot] Confusion about location of custom Linux patches

Patrick Doyle wpdster at gmail.com
Thu Feb 25 15:38:19 UTC 2016


On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 5:26 PM, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
> On 02/24/16 20:56, Patrick Doyle wrote:
>> I tried deciding that BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR was preferred, but now I'm
>> not sure how to name the subdirectory inside BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR.  I
>> have tried $BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR/kernel and
>> $BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR/linux, and neither has seemed to work.
>
>  linux is right. You must have done something else wrong. Do the file names end
> with .patch?

OK, it seems to work now.  I must have misspelled something
previously.  Thank you for your help.

--wpd


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