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External Buildroot tree for Xaptum hardware
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linux: move brcmfmac patches into global patches dir #53

Closed drbild closed 5 years ago

drbild commented 5 years ago

The brcmfmac patches are not really specific the xaprw board. At a minimum, they should be applied to any kernel that builds the brcmfmac driver. It's safe to apply them to all kernels (the resulting source files just won't be built), so it is easiest for us to manage them in the global patches directory.

Most of the patches are upstream anyway, so we we upgrade to a new LTS kernel, these patches can be dropped.

Fixes #23

dberliner commented 5 years ago

There are already patches with starting number 0001-0005 in this directory, is it OK that there will be duplicate prefixes?

drbild commented 5 years ago

It should be ok. They'll just be applied in a slightly strange order.

Say we have three patch series A, B, and C consisting of 5, 2, and 1 patch each. They'd be applied in the following order:

As long as one series doesn't depend on the other, everything is ok.