<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Robert P. J. Day <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rpjday@crashcourse.ca" target="_blank">rpjday@crashcourse.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On Fri, 18 Jul 2014, Burton, Ross wrote:<br>
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> On 18 July 2014 19:58, Robert P. J. Day <<a href="mailto:rpjday@crashcourse.ca">rpjday@crashcourse.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
> > not sure where i saw this recently (i'll track it down), but some OE<br>
> > or yocto doc claimed that patch files *must* be suffixed with<br>
> > ".patch". i'm pretty sure it can be either .patch or .diff, correct?<br>
> > as in, it's perfectly valid to do this in a .bbappend file:</div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Also remember that as Ross says ('*automatically* applied as a patch'), it's not a must, you can opt-in to patch application with ;apply=yes if the filename doesn't match the expected extensions.<br>
-- <br>Christopher Larson<br>clarson at kergoth dot com<br>Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus<br>Maintainer - Tslib<br>Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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