RFC Add support for specifying a custom kernel directory
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Cover letter [Buildroot] [RFC 0/2] Add support for specifying a custom kernel directory
Florian, All,
On 2017-10-28 19:06 -0700, Florian Fainelli spake thusly:
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This series allows specifying a custom kernel directory which could be an existing git tree. This is particularly useful when doing kernel development and having an existing git checkout where development is happening.
As I replied to the patch itself: this is already covered by the opverride-srcdir mechanism, so I've marked this series as rejected in our patchwork.
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Ideally, I would like to avoid doing the rsync operation involved with the "local" method and instead just have a symbolic link from /path/to/kernel -> output/build/linux.
The first rsync may take a few seconds, true, but subs=equent ones will be much faster if all you do is change a few files, especially on a hot directory, so there is not much gain to have with a local symlink.
OTOH, I am currently working on out-of-tree per-pacakge build, which will (eventually) allow us to make use of the O= mechanism to build the kernel out-of-tree, and get rid of the rsync altogether. Don't hold your breath, though. ;-)
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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Comments welcome!
Florian Fainelli (2):
pkg-generic: Don't check for trailing slashes for local method
linux: Add support for specifying a custom directorylinux/Config.in | 10 ++++++++++ linux/linux.mk | 3 +++ package/linux-headers/linux-headers.mk | 5 +++++ package/pkg-generic.mk | 2 ++ 4 files changed, 20 insertions(+)Signature · 6 lines
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