[oe] [RFC] How to handle external kernel patches in oe the right way?

[Koen Kooi]

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Richard Purdie schreef:
> On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 22:29 +0200, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
>> Due to my work on OpenEZX (http://www.openezx.org) I'm in touch with
>> external kernel patches used in OE to build working kernels for
>> different Motorola mobile phones.
>>
>> Talking with Koen about the best way to handle this we have some
>> slightly different opinions on this. So we like to get some more
>> opinions on this before pinning to a strategy.
>>
>> Koen like to pull the patches from a known-good rev into oe to have
>> them all at one place for less fragile building and tweaking.
>>
>> I prefer OE to use our svn server with a fixed SRCREV which gets
>> updated once a newer version is known good. I'm not a fan of
>> duplicating the patches in OE if some small tweaking patches can also
>> handle it.
> 
> Personally I agree with this in principle, I've never liked maintaining
> kernel patches in OE directly either.

I'm having issues with crap like do_prepatch. Patches are only applied by patch.bbclass,
not some hand written voodoo <period>.
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