I don't think any of those files in that patches folder are needed anymore. They were added to the c ode back to 2015. Bin will know for sure, whether or not they can be removed. Al From: Liu, Changcheng [mailto:changcheng.liu@intel.com] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2019 8:26 PM To: Bailey, Henry Albert (Al); Qian, Bin Cc: starlingx-discuss@lists.starlingx.io Subject: RE: [Starlingx-discuss] What is the function of patches directory in StarlingX source code Hi AI & Bin, Does sm_patch.py make effect when installing the ISO image or it makes effect to apply all the patches when building the source code? Specifically, what's below patch used for? Could I remove it from source code directly? cgcs-root/stx/stx-ha/service-mgmt/sm-db-1.0.0/patches/sm_db_ceph_install.patch I'm removing ceph-rest-api from source code and replace it with other service. The above patch define some service realted with ceph-rest-api. I don't know whether I need change that patch file. B.R. Changcheng From: Bailey, Henry Albert (Al) [mailto:Al.Bailey@windriver.com] Sent: Monday, January 7, 2019 9:50 PM To: Liu, Changcheng <changcheng.liu@intel.com>; starlingx-discuss@lists.starlingx.io Cc: Qian, Bin <Bin.Qian@windriver.com> Subject: RE: [Starlingx-discuss] What is the function of patches directory in StarlingX source code I believe the contents of that folder are installed into a patches folder, and acted upon by the sm-patch utility https://github.com/openstack/stx-ha/blob/master/service-mgmt-tools/sm-tools/... It looks like they populate "V1" tables. Bin should be able to indicate if we still make use of the V1 tables or not. Al From: Liu, Changcheng [mailto:changcheng.liu@intel.com] Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2019 10:57 PM To: starlingx-discuss@lists.starlingx.io<mailto:starlingx-discuss@lists.starlingx.io> Subject: [Starlingx-discuss] What is the function of patches directory in StarlingX source code Hi all, What's the function of patches directory in StartlingX source code? For example: cgcs-root/stx/stx-ha/service-mgmt/sm-db-1.0.0/patches/sm_db_ceph_install.patch Regards, Changcheng