Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Proposal for managing the kernel patches.

2018-11-04 Thread Daniel Santos
I had a discussion about this on irc a few weeks ago as well and I am in favor.  There are just far too many reasons to list for the OpenWRT kernel to exist as a set of branches in git.  Among them are the ability to move patches around, cherry-pick and git-blame.  It is often very important to und

[OpenWrt-Devel] Proposal for managing the kernel patches.

2018-11-01 Thread Ben Greear
I just had a good discussion with jow about this on irc, thought I'd put my ideas in email form in case others are interested. In my opinion, it is difficult to develop against the current model of local kernel patches and backports patches. So, I am thinking something like this might be a bette