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

["Yann E. MORIN" <yann dot morin dot 1998 at free dot fr>]

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.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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