[LEDE-DEV] [RFC] kernel patches cleanup

[Philip Prindeville]

> On Jul 31, 2017, at 10:11 AM, John Crispin <john at phrozen.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I rebased my ages old kernel patch cleanup series. It can be found here [1].
> 
> the series annotates all patches and splits them up into 3 folders backports/pending/hacks.


What’s the criteria for each?

And isn’t “hacks” kind of self-defeating?  If someone submits a PR that adds something to “hacks”, won’t the default position be, “since this is admittedly a hack, it’s not really needed and you should find a more compelling fix”?

-Philip


> 
> I'd like to push this asap if there are no mayor issues as it will be a pain to rebase once again
> 
>    John
> 
> 
> [1] https://git.lede-project.org/?p=lede/blogic/staging.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/patches-cleanup
>