From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:30:02 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Pull request u-boot-blackfin.git In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:29:03 EST." <200802231529.04407.vapier@gentoo.org> Message-ID: <20080223223002.86E2A243AB@gemini.denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.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 -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de Name one thing windows is better than unix in? Making money for Microsoft? -- Randal L. Schwartz in <8cvi5t4c3t.fsf@gadget.cscaper.com>