[U-Boot-Users] Pull request u-boot-blackfin.git

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

In message <200802231529.04407.vapier@gentoo.org> you wrote:
>
> > Then that cannot go in now. We would break several rules at once:
> > patches must be posted to the list first, and new stuff will get
> > merged only when a merge window is open.
> 
> since Blackfin literrally has never compiled/linked in the mainline releases, 
> theres no way i could break it even more.  delaying these updates to make 
> mainline Blackfin u-boot usable is only that: delay.

Still the patches need to be reviewed first.

> as for posting the patches to the list, how do you know whether to merge it
> directly or pull from a repo ?

In cases like this one, where there is a custodian who  caresa  about
the  topic  of the patches, I wait for his pull request and then pull
from the repo. The posting of the patches  is  primarily  for  giving
others a chance to review the stuff *before* it goes into mainline.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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