From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 18:30:51 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: kernel: add a PATCHES text file describing the new patch categories
X-Git-Tag: reboot~16877
X-Git-Url: http://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Fchunkeey.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=4a6e01fa38b1db676649047e7f1e3febd5e91b6d

kernel: add a PATCHES text file describing the new patch categories

SVN-Revision: 26689
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diff --git a/target/linux/generic/PATCHES b/target/linux/generic/PATCHES
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d741a73cbb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/target/linux/generic/PATCHES
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+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
+