On Tuesday 20 January 2009 16:09:56 RB wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 00:30, Warren Turkal <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 1. What specific kernel version is the 2.6.28 kernel patch set
> > designed to be applied (2.6.28 or 2.6.28.1)? How do I look this
> > information up for myself?
>
> That's set in the LINUX_VERSION variable in the target's Makefile
> (target/linux/brcm47xx/Makefile). Since that's still set to a 2.6.25
> series AFAICT, it looks like the 2.6.28 portion is just staged and not
> yet intended to build.
>
> > 2. What is a good workflow for applying part of the series of patches
> > so that I can make a modification to a specific patch?
>
> If you can unravel the spaghetti-soup Makefile mess and figure that
> out, please let us all know. I've typically just hand-patched until I
> got where I needed.
You can also use the builtin quilt support in buildroot.
That's pretty easy to use.
make QUILT=1 target/linux-{clean,prepare}
cd build_dir/foobar
quilt push, pop, etc...
vi edit_file
quilt refresh
make target/linux-update
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Greetings, Michael.
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