[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] brcm2708: rename all patches from raspberrypi git tree to use 999 prefix

Felix Fietkau nbd at nbd.name
Thu Mar 23 10:29:18 PDT 2017


On 2017-03-22 21:36, 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.
I agree with the split, but could you please use a number much lower
than 999? ;)

- Felix




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