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

[Stijn Tintel]

On 23-03-17 19:49, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> 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.
>
950 sounds good to me.

Acked-by: Stijn Tintel <stijn at linux-ipv6.be>