[U-Boot-Users] Changes to U-Boot Development Process

Wolfgang Denk
2007-01-19T10:05:07Z

Dear Stefan,

in message <200701190818.08895.sr@denx.de> you wrote:
>
> > And, let's face it, adding new boards is the exception. Count how many
> > patches have been submitted so far, and how many boards we support.
> > It's a completely insignificant fraction. I don't think it would be a
> > good idea to fix the limits to suite such exceptions. These can be
> > compressed.
>
> I'm with the Freescale guys here. I don't like compressed patches. This

I agree 100% with you here. But we should not try to use the
exceptions as standard for setting up the message limits. The number
of cases, where a good and valid patch exceeds the 40 kB limit is
*very* small. And if somebody submits new code, you will probably not
only view it in your mailer, you will apply the patch, run MAKEALL to
see if it comples cleanly, etc. - which means that you will most
probably use your preferred text editor for reviewing the code
instead of reading it in your MUA.

In the past, you helped a lot to review patches for coding style
violations. I guess you did not do this in your MUA context, but
using a text editor instead?

Also, there is always the possibility to split a patch.

Ummm... is there a size limit on other mailing lists - say on lkml or
linuxppc-dev?

> requires some extra steps to review (at least for me) and normally I am too
> lazy to do this right away when reading the mails. Even if these boards
> support patches are not that frequent, there should be no "obstacle" to send
> them inline.

Well, you have never seen the messages that have been blocked by the
mailing list's size limit. I *did* see (and usually reject) them.
Believe me, this filter function has always been very useful.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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