[LEDE-DEV] RFC: splitting up the patches folder

[Álvaro Fernández Rojas]

Hi John,

I really like the idea.
Are you thinking on applying this for generic patches only or also for target specific ones?

Álvaro.

El 20/12/16 a las 21:53, John Crispin escribió:
> Hi,
> 
> i have been thinking of how to split up the kernel patches folder in a
> better way. for a start we have all the backports inside the same folder
> as our normal patches, unfortunately we have some backports and patches
> that have in the meantime been sent upstream not numbered as 0xx-*.patch.
> 
> i was thinking that we could add a backports-4.4 which would hold all
> the backported patches.
> 
> we could then split up the remaining patches into those that still need
> to be sent upstream and those that we wont be able to send upstream. the
> order in which we apply them would then be
> 
> * backports
> * pending patches
> * lede patches
> 
> this would make going to a newer version easier as they are already
> ordered correctly and makes it more obvious how big the queue is.
> 
> 	John
> 
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