[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] brcm2708: rename all patches from raspberrypi git tree to use 999 prefix
Florian Fainelli
f.fainelli at gmail.com
Wed Mar 22 14:01:12 PDT 2017
On 03/22/2017 01:36 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
>
> Right now all brcm2708 patches are extracted from the non-mainline
> raspberrypi/linux git tree. Many of them are hacks and/or are unneeded
> in LEDE. Raspberry Pi is getting better and better mainline support so
> it would be nice to finally start maintaining patches in a cleaner way:
> 1) Backport patches accepted in upstream tree
> 2) Start using upstream drivers
> 3) Pick only these patches that are needed for more complete support
>
> Handling above tasks requires grouping patches - ideally using the same
> prefixes as generic ones. It means we should rename existing patches to
> use some high prefix. This will allow e.g. use 0xx for backported code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
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Florian
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