[yocto] One recipe, two gits with destsuffix, how to patch?

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Kalle,

On Saturday 24 January 2015 08:34:56 Kalle Komierowski wrote:
> I'm working with the ti-compat-wireless recipe.
> It contains two gits like this:
> 
> SRC_URI =
> "git://git.ti.com/wilink8-wlan/wl18xx.git;branch=${BRANCH_wl18xx};destsuffi
> x=wl18xx;name=wl18xx \
> git://git.ti.com/wilink8-wlan/backports.git;branch=${BRANCH_backports};dest
> suffix=backports;name=backports \ file://wl18xx.patch \
> 
> Now I want to add the wl18xx.patch file, and this file ends up in the S and
> applying it fails since the git it should be applied to is under
> S/backports due to the destsuffix.
> 
> I tried to use the quilt and create new patches from the S but they fail to.
> 
> What would be the correct way of adding a patch so it applies to backports?

You may find the patchdir option for the patch SRC_URI entry to be useful. I 
should imagine you'll want something like:
...
  file://wl18xx.patch;patchdir=../backports
...

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre