[oe] Policy on (committing) large (1MB) machine specific patches?

[Tom Rini]

On 02/01/2011 04:15 PM, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to submit another machine to OE, but I need to bring in
> vendor patches (which do not apply cleanly) modified by me, so they
> have no Internet presence.
> The patches measure in 1MB of plain source text.
>
> Is it policy to commit this? Where is the limit?
>
>
> I see we have lots of large patches:
>
> cd openembedded.git/recipes/linux/
> ls -Sshr `find . -type f -regex .*patch$`
>
> ...many of them appearing multiple times in the checkout:
>
> ls -Shr `find . -type f -regex .*patch$` | xargs -L1 md5sum
>
> eating disk space on the build machine.

I am of the opinion that these things should be heavily compressed and 
appropriate comments used in the recipe like:
# Vendor Foo's release $identifier patchset updated to apply cleanly to
# 2.6.blah.

With any further bugfixes/etc done as regular and separate patches.

-- 
Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation