On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca>
wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2014, Burton, Ross wrote:
>
> > On 18 July 2014 19:58, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> > > not sure where i saw this recently (i'll track it down), but some OE
> > > or yocto doc claimed that patch files *must* be suffixed with
> > > ".patch". i'm pretty sure it can be either .patch or .diff, correct?
> > > as in, it's perfectly valid to do this in a .bbappend file:
>
Also remember that as Ross says ('*automatically* applied as a patch'),
it's not a must, you can opt-in to patch application with ;apply=yes if the
filename doesn't match the expected extensions.
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