@@ -511,14 +511,19 @@ endef
#
# Note: our package infrastructure uses the full-path of the last-scanned
# Makefile to determine what package we're currently defining, using the
-# last directory component in the path. As such, including other Makefile,
-# like below, before we call one of the *-package macro is usally not
-# working.
+# last directory component in the path. As such, including other Makefiles,
+# like below, before we call one of the *-package macros usually doesn't
+# work.
# However, since the files we include here are in the same directory as
# the current Makefile, we are OK. But this is a hard requirement: files
-# included here *must* be in the same directory!
+# included here *must* either be in this same directory OR within a
+# another directory with the name "linux" (in the BR2_EXTERNAL case).
include $(sort $(wildcard linux/linux-ext-*.mk))
+#Import linux-kernel-extensions from externals
+-include $(sort $(wildcard $(foreach ext,$(BR2_EXTERNAL_DIRS), \
+ $(ext)/linux/linux-ext-*.mk)))
+
LINUX_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES += $(foreach ext,$(LINUX_EXTENSIONS),\
$(if $(BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_EXT_$(call UPPERCASE,$(ext))),$(ext)))