RE: [PATCH] kernel/linux: Allow user to manually enter Linux version

[ANDY KENNEDY <ANDY dot KENNEDY at adtran dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yann E. MORIN [mailto:yann.morin.1998@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Yann E. MORIN
> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 11:50 AM
> To: crossgcc@sourceware.org
> Cc: ANDY KENNEDY
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/linux: Allow user to manually enter Linux version
> 
> Andy, All,
> 
> On Thursday 03 January 2013 ANDY KENNEDY wrote:
> > In addition to the choice list and the custom version, allow the user to
> > enter a free format version to pull from kernel.org (or the specified
> > local repo) as a standard version number.
> 
> If you need a custom version (ie a version not in the list) of any
> component, then the "custom location" option is exactly here for this.
> You just have to extract your kernel yourself, and point ct-ng at the
> directory you extracted your kernel in..
> 
> We used to have a "custom version" (version, as 'version string') option
> for some components (eg. uClibc), but those have been all changed to use
> the common "custom location" infrastructure.
> 
> Basically, from the point-of-view of crosstool-NG, there is absolutely no
> difference whatsoever between:
>   - using a version that is not in the list,
>   - using a completely custom source tree.
> 
> In both cases, it means that you want to use something that is alien to
> crosstool-NG, so there is no reason to differentiate those cases.
> 
> The only slight advantage would be to use crosstool-NG's internal function
> to do the download-extract-patch, but thtat is sufficiently trivial to
> either do manually, or implement in a driver script.

That is the advantage I was going for ;).

Please forgive the ignorance, but was is a driver script?  I see nothing
with -i "driver script" in the docs directory.  Could you explain to me
the "right way" of doing what I'm attempting?  I'd rather use your tool
the way you intend it that to have to maintain this patch locally, however,
I don't mind doing that for the ease of use the patch offers.

Thanks Yann!

Andy

> 
> Regards,
> Yann E. MORIN.
> 
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