linux: support a space-separated list of patches

The kernel being a component that often needs a fairly important set
of changes to be adapted to a particular hardware platform, having
maximum flexibility on the patching process is a nice
thing. Therefore, as per the discussions from the Buildroot Developer
Day, we add a mechanism to apply a list of patches (that could come
either from URLs, local files or local directories).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
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Thomas Petazzoni
2010-12-05 21:53:18 +01:00
committed by Peter Korsgaard
parent fb358f7b38
commit 55b0a375ea
2 changed files with 16 additions and 16 deletions

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@@ -70,11 +70,12 @@ config BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION
#
config BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_PATCH
string "Custom kernel patch"
string "Custom kernel patches"
help
The location can be an URL, a file path, or a directory. In
the case of a directory, all files matching linux-*.patch
will be applied.
A space-separated list of patches to apply to the
kernel. Each patch can be described as an URL, a local file
path, or a directory. In the case of a directory, all files
matching linux-*.patch in the directory will be applied.
#
# Configuration selection