From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 18 Jun 2014 13:49:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from nbd.name ([46.4.11.11]:58029 "EHLO nbd.name" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by eddie.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S6819446AbaFRLtuD8YUd (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jun 2014 13:49:50 +0200 Message-ID: <53A17CD5.2060504@phrozen.org> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 13:49:41 +0200 From: John Crispin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com Subject: Re: Introducing Atheros AR231x/AR531x WiSoC support References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 40624 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: john@phrozen.org Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 List-Id: linux-mips X-List-ID: linux-mips List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: List-archive: X-list: linux-mips On 18/06/2014 13:46, Sergey Ryazanov wrote: > Hello, > > I plan to send several patches for upstream merging, that > introduce support for Atheros AR231x/AR531x WiSoCs. This code > developed and extensively tested in OpenWRT project. And I need > some help. > > I need to know what is the preferred way to split code on to > separate patches suitable for review and merging? Some kind of > howto or article would be great. Could you recomend something? > Should I send a series as RFC first? > Hi Sergey, is the code already in a cleaned up state ? are you just missing the bit where you split it up into patches or is there still dev work that needs to be done beyond the actual submission process ? is your code already available somewhere or do you plan to pusht he owrt support upstream as is ? John