From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Angelo Compagnucci Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2017 22:32:15 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v3] linux: Add CIP SLTS easy selection option In-Reply-To: <20170406222929.7a395880@free-electrons.com> References: <1491497905-18810-1-git-send-email-angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com> <20170406222929.7a395880@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Thomas Petazzoni, 2017-04-06 22:29 GMT+02:00 Thomas Petazzoni < thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>: > Hello, > > On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 18:58:25 +0200, Angelo Compagnucci wrote: > > This patch adds an easy way to select the CIP project SLTS > > kernel within the kernel menu. > > > > Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci > > I've applied after doing a few tweaks, see below. > > > +config BR2_CIP_KERNEL_REPO_URL > > + string "CIP SLTS (SuperLong Term Support) kernel url" > > + default "git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bwh/linux- > cip.git" > > I've completely dropped this option. Indeed, it is already possible > without your patch to select a custom Git repository to download the > kernel. So having yet another option to do that is useless. If you want > to use a custom CIP repository, just use the existing > BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_GIT option. > > > > > + help > > + CIP launched in the spring of 2016 to address the needs of > > + organizations in industries such as power generation and > > + distribution, water, oil and gas, transportation, building > > + automation and more for reliable and secure Linux-based > > + embedded systems that can be sustained over a period of > > + 10 to as many as 60 years. > > + The project's goal is to provide an open source base layer > > + of industrial-grade software that permits the use and > > + implementation of software building blocks that meet > > + these requirements. > > + > > + The CIP community plans to maintain 4.4 for security and > > + bug fixes for more than 10 years. > > Since this help text was useful, I've moved it under the > BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_LATEST_CIP_VERSION option. > > > +config BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_LATEST_CIP_VERSION > > + bool "Latest CIP SLTS (Super Long Term Support) version > (v4.4.55-cip3)" > > This prompt was too long and didn't fit in the menuconfig window. So > I've removed the "(Super Long Term Support)" part of it, which is > anyway explained in the help text. > > Applied with those two changes. Thanks! > I'm super happy! Thank you so much, really appreciated! > > Thomas > -- > Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons > Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering > http://free-electrons.com > -- Profile: http://it.linkedin.com/in/compagnucciangelo -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: