I've came across a custom LEDE image in this repository, which contains a /overlay/mac80211/patches folder.
In this particular instance, it seems to me that this folder includes patches to a wireless driver that operates at the kernel level.
My questions are:
- As far as I understand, these patches are applied at compilation time. How does the LEDE build system know to look into this folder to apply such patches? Is it a default behavior? Do I need to enable something?
- Are the patches applied in numerical order? E.g., in the case presented above, that would be 53, then 54, ..., up to 59?
- If I wanted a add a patch of my own to be applied at compilation time, can I simply add them to another folder, e.g.
/overlay/foo/patches?