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

[Rafał Miłecki]

On 23 March 2017 at 18:57, Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari at gmail.com> wrote:
> El 23/03/2017 a las 18:38, Rafał Miłecki escribió:
>> On 2017-03-23 18:29, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>>> 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? ;)
> I also agree with the split, but I have to warn you that I may not be able to achieve this right now since I haven't got much free time lately...
>
>>
>> I'd like to have "access" to all standard prefixes:
>>
>> 0xx - upstream backports
>> 1xx - code awaiting upstream merge
>> 2xx - kernel build / config / header patches
>> 3xx - architecture specific patches
>> 4xx - mtd related patches (subsystem and drivers)
>> 5xx - filesystem related patches
>> 6xx - generic network patches
>> 7xx - network / phy driver patches
>> 8xx - other drivers
>> 9xx - uncategorized other patches
> I think those patches fit into the "uncategorized other patches" category so why don't we use 900-?

I'd also like to have space for "uncategorized other patches" added
before patches backported from raspberrypi/linux. 950 would allow
using 900-949 numbers for such stuff. And in case we need patches on
top of raspberrypi/linux (as Felix suggested) we may use 951-999.

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Rafał