Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] media: dt-bindings: i2c: add Giantec GT97xx VCM

Krzysztof Kozlowski
2024-04-21T14:01:27Z

On 21/04/2024 13:35, Kieran Bingham wrote:
> Quoting Kieran Bingham (2024-04-20 13:53:01)
>> Quoting Krzysztof Kozlowski (2024-04-20 12:21:46)
>>> On 20/04/2024 03:18, Zhi Mao wrote:
>>>> Add YAML device tree binding for GT9768 & GT8769 VCM,
>>>> and the relevant MAINTAINERS entries.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Zhi Mao <zhi.mao@mediatek.com>
>>>> ---
>>>
>>> Sorry, there was v1. Please do not send same versions twice. BTW, use
>>> patman or b4 for your submissions if versioning is tricky.
>>>
>>
>> Whats Patman? google returns false positives for me.
>
> Digging deeper, I've discovered patman comes from the u-boot project,
> and is known as 'patch manager', and can work along side patchwork.
>
> - https://docs.u-boot.org/en/latest/develop/patman.html

Patman is the tool brought for U-boot and used a lot within some of
Chromebook folks, quite powerful. Now most of the community uses b4, but
for completeness I proposed patman (which has few nice features not
present in b4). See Doug's talk from this EOSS.

Best regards,
Krzysztof