suggestion: disable patching if custom kernel repo is used?

[g40]

My lib.config specifies a custom kernel repository. It would be nice if applying this override also disabled kernel patching, rather than having to manually create empty patch files in `userpatches/kernel/sunxi64-dev' ?

I can work up a PR if this sounds like a desirable feature? Thanks.

if [[ $BRANCH == "dev" ]]; then
	# kernel
	KERNELSOURCE='https://git.novadsp.com/g40/nanopi-linux'
	KERNELBRANCH='branch:sunxi-4.14.y'
	# specify where our sources are found
	KERNELDIR='nanopi-linux'
	# we want utils and need the dev package
	PACKAGE_LIST="$PACKAGE_LIST v4l-utils libv4l-dev gdb"
	# prune package list!
	echo "Pruning $PACKAGE_LIST_DESKTOP armbian-firmware"
	display_alert "Pruning $PACKAGE_LIST_DESKTOP" "" "info"
	PACKAGE_LIST_RM=$PACKAGE_LIST_DESKTOP
fi

[igorpecovnik]

You only need to add a variable where are your patches. Example:
KERNELBRANCH="tag:v4.12.6"
KERNELPATCHDIR="lol"

[ o.k. ] Cleaning [ linux-mainline/v4.12.6 ]
[ .... ] Patching kernel for compiler support
[ o.k. ] Started patching process for [ kernel sunxi-next ]
[ o.k. ] Looking for user patches in [ userpatches/kernel/lol ]