[Buildroot] -E flag in apply-patches.sh

[Andrey Nechypurenko]

Hi All,

On Mon, 13 Dec 2021 at 18:55, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> wrote:
>
> Andrey, All,
>
> On 2021-12-13 17:44 +0100, Andrey Nechypurenko spake thusly:
> > > > I am wondering if there are any particular reasons to have the -E flag
> > > > and if it would make sense to remove it from the script?
> > >
> > >   I think that's purely historical, from back in the days when many patches were
> > > downloaded externally and some of them could be really odd.
> > >
> > >   I expect that none of the patches that we have now still need this. However,
> > > you should probably check:
> > >
> > >   - all patches in the buildroot tree;
> > >   - all patches downloaded from somewhere (git grep 'patch\|diff' -- \*.hash)
> > I looked through the patches and did not find anything suspicious (however,
> > no 100% guarantee :-) ). So would you consider removing the -E flag from the
> > script in the upcoming release?
>
> Could you send a patch that does that, with a commit log that summarises
> the situation, please?

Done.

Regards,
Andrey.