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If you look closely at what Buildroot will do, it will do a rsync of the Linux kernel source code from your linux/
Git repository to output/build/linux-custom
in Buildroot, and then do the build. You can check make sure that your I2C5 change is there!output/build/linux-custom/arch/arm/boot/dts/stm32mp157c-dk2.dts
to
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