- Why I did it
Currently, non upstream patches are applied only after upstream patches.
Depends on sonic-net/sonic-linux-kernel#313. Can be merged in any order, preferably together
- What I did it
Non upstream Patches that reside in the sonic repo will not be saved in a tar file bur rather in a folder pointed out by EXTERNAL_KERNEL_PATCH_LOC. This is to make changes to the non upstream patches easily traceable.
The build variable name is also updated to INCLUDE_EXTERNAL_PATCHES
Files/folders expected under EXTERNAL_KERNEL_PATCH_LOC
EXTERNAL_KERNEL_PATCH_LOC/
├──── patches/
├── 0001-xxxxx.patch
├── 0001-yyyyyyyy.patch
├── .............
├──── series.patch
series.patch should contain a diff that is applied on the sonic-linux-kernel/patch/series file. The diff should include all the non-upstream patches.
How to verify it
Build the Kernel and verified if all the patches are applied properly
Signed-off-by: Vivek Reddy Karri <vkarri@nvidia.com>
