Using $(shell find $(REP_DIR)/patches -name *.patch) fails if the
current working directory contains *.patch files due to shell wildcard
expansion before execution. Additionally, the patch list was unstable
because it was not sorted resulting in divergent hashes.
Some functions in the kernel, which create a static object and return its
address, are declared with a GCC 'const' attribute, which can cause GCC
4.9 to optimize the function call out and use the static object's address
without calling the constructor.
Fixes#1509
