[Buildroot] Custom kernal patch not being run

[Thomas De Schampheleire]

Hi Charles,

buildrootcharles <charles.s at mercury-security.com> schreef:
>I am trying to figure out how to create and have buildroot deploy a custom
>kernel patch (on my system only). I currently have my buildroot configured
>to  build a custom kernel from a tarball I have saved locally on my machine
>(filename Linux-3.10.4-July302014.tar.gz), I have created a patch file
>(named Linux-patch.patch) with the following content:
>
>*** /home/MSC/SVN_BuildRoot/output/build/linux-custom/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
>2014-07-22 14:45:55.000000000 -0700
>--- /home/MSC/SVN_BuildRoot/board/ep4502/linux-patches/ipconfig.c	2014-08-28
>10:00:33.824586558 -0700
>***************
>*** 89,96 ****
>  
>  /* Define the friendly delay before and after opening net devices */
>  #define CONF_POST_OPEN		10	/* After opening: 10 msecs */
>! #ifdef CONFIG_MACH_AT91SAM9G45_EP4502VBB
>! #define CONF_CARRIER_TIMEOUT	12000	/* Wait for carrier timeout */
>  #else
>  #define CONF_CARRIER_TIMEOUT	120000	/* Wait for carrier timeout */
>  #endif
>--- 89,96 ----
>  
>  /* Define the friendly delay before and after opening net devices */
>  #define CONF_POST_OPEN		10	/* After opening: 10 msecs */
>! #ifdef CONFIG_MACH_AT91SAM9G45_EP4502MSC
>! #define CONF_CARRIER_TIMEOUT	30000	/* Wait for carrier timeout */
>  #else
>  #define CONF_CARRIER_TIMEOUT	120000	/* Wait for carrier timeout */
>  #endif
>
>I have specified the directory where the patch resides in the
>BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_PATCH="/home/patchdirectory/"
>whenever I run make Linux-rebuild it never seems to find my patch, do I have
>it named wrong?  can anyone help, I've been stuck on this for nearly 2 days?
>thanks.
>

linux-rebuild will not reapply patches.
Try 
make linux-dirclean linux

Best regards,
Thomas