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authornbd <nbd@3c298f89-4303-0410-b956-a3cf2f4a3e73>2011-04-16 18:30:51 +0000
committernbd <nbd@3c298f89-4303-0410-b956-a3cf2f4a3e73>2011-04-16 18:30:51 +0000
commit837777d736d83a89c1473730332e9b8890dd09e7 (patch)
tree7d933b763c44fbf6fb379fc7892124f2b587e517 /target/linux/generic/PATCHES
parenta2ba8cb78151ebcf278aa3bb60b168da9193db4d (diff)
kernel: add a PATCHES text file describing the new patch categories
git-svn-id: svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk@26689 3c298f89-4303-0410-b956-a3cf2f4a3e73
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+The patches-* subdirectories contain the kernel patches applied for every
+OpenWrt target. All patches should be named 'NNN-lowercase_shortname.patch'
+and sorted into the following categories:
+
+0xx - upstream backports:
+1xx - code awaiting upstream merge
+2xx - kernel build / config / header patches
+3xx - architecture specific patches
+4xx - mtd related patches (subsystem and drivers)
+5xx - filesystem related patches
+6xx - generic network patches
+7xx - network / phy driver patches
+8xx - other drivers
+9xx - uncategorized other patches
+