[U-Boot-Users] u-boot patch submission process

[Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:43:18 +0100
Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@googlemail.com> wrote:

> [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] [DRIVERS] <asm/mpc8xxx_spi.h> is onlyavailable
> for ppc boards.
> 
> I'm assuming this will eventually be properly patched in the main tree
> - meanwhile anyone building ARM code can apply this patch
> -- cut --
> 
> This is quite annoying, particularly if you should test patches 
> already in that tree or against that. IMHO the arm.git should contain 
> the fix temporarily to be able to build cleanly instead of staying 
> with a broken tree.

You're damn right it's annoying, but applying the fix to every single
arch tree just isn't the right solution. That will cause mayhem when it
turns out that every arch maintainer picked up a different fix among
the 6 or so that were posted.

But if Wolfgang doesn't wake up and apply a fix pretty soon, I guess
that might be exactly what's going to happen.

> To workaround I would propose that you test MAKEALL against mainline 
> U-Boot git.

Won't help since it's mainline that is broken. And it's not only ARM --
every single architecture except PPC has been broken for several weeks.
The first fix was posted less than three hours after the breakage was
introduced, but no fix has yet been merged.

I'm starting to get seriously pissed off about this whole situation and
how it's been handled. Wolfgang, you can't with a straight face demand
that people always run the latest git snapshot WHEN IT DOESN'T EVEN
BUILD AND HAS BEEN THAT WAY FOR SEVERAL WEEKS!

Haavard