[Buildroot] Redundant kernel patches in the snapshot from20070718

Bernhard Fischer rep.dot.nop at gmail.com
Mon Jul 30 20:02:47 UTC 2007


On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 09:27:28PM +0200, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
[I deliberately do not correct the gazillions of typos i made]

>>>>* Cannot apply architecture specific patches, since
>>>>  you may have conflicts between several patch-set's.
>>>>* Cluttered directory
>>> 
>>> hm? Please explain.
>>> 
>>
>>The AVR32 chips and the AT91 ARM chips uses the same peripherals,
>>and therefore can use the same drivers.
>
>fair enough.
>
>So there is _one_ patch which is submitted upstream that is
>linux-1.2.3.4-add-thisSpecificDevice.patch

... where this patch adds _just_ the device. Accompanying
infrastructure which may be used by a friend class of HW of course has
to be in a separate patch. This obviously prevents attempts to apply any
hunk twice, fwiw.



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