From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tony Lindgren Subject: Re: when to submit new board support Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 03:33:36 -0700 Message-ID: <20110810103336.GE1939@atomide.com> References: <4E425B4A.3050808@matrix-vision.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mho-04-ewr.mailhop.org ([204.13.248.74]:22467 "EHLO mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751811Ab1HJKdj (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:33:39 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E425B4A.3050808@matrix-vision.de> Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Michael Jones Cc: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org * Michael Jones [110810 03:14]: > I would like to submit some patches to add support for a new OMAP board... > > Is there a right or wrong time to post such patches to this list? How > does the kernel merge window effect what kind of patches are expected > here on the OMAP list? Well this is the right time, however we're moving things to device tree and coalescing code. So you may need to be prepared to update the patches a few times before we get them to mainline. > What should I use as the base for my patches? At > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6.git, > at the moment 'master' hasn't been updated for 4 weeks. Should I base it > on v3.1-rc1 instead (as an example, since I won't manage to submit it > while v3.1-rc1 is the most recent tag)? Yes v3.1-rc1 should be used as the base. I've been on vacation and have not updated the omap tree for a while, will updated it soonish, but will be just v3.1-rc1 + bug fixes. Tony