[U-Boot] How to manage RMOBILE patches?

[Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>]

Hi Tom,

On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 13:58:57 -0700, Tom Rini <trini@ti.com> wrote:

> On 09/06/2012 12:28 PM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> > Hi Nobuhiro,
> > 
> > On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 08:20:59 +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
> > <iwamatsu@nigauri.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi, Tom.
> >>
> >> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Tom Rini <trini@ti.com> wrote:
> >>> On 09/05/2012 04:18 AM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> >>>> Hi Nobuhiro,
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 11:26:37 +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
> >>>> <iwamatsu@nigauri.org> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Tom Rini <trini@ti.com> wrote:
> >>>>>> On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 09:15:56PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> >>>>>>> Dear Nobuhiro Iwamatsu,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> In message
> >>>>>>> <CABMQnVLBEEjcEtfTzdeThHfTLp=b24QSOgnFjbZr-8YWYTJUhg@mail.gmail.com>
> >>>>>>> you wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I am working supporting  Renesas RMOBILE to U-Boot.
> >>>>>>>> Renesas's RMOBILE SoC family contains an ARM Cortex-A9, and
> >>>>>>>> this uses the same IP as SH.
> >>>>>>>> (For example, timer, ether, serial, etc.)
> >>>>>>>> I already sent to patches of rmobile, I got review from some
> >>>>>>>> developers. And the patch is managed by the arm/rmobile
> >>>>>>>> branch of u-boot-sh[0] which I have maintained, now.
> >>>>>>>> Since I had you take the patch of rmobile into an ARM
> >>>>>>>> repository, I consulted with Albert about the
> >>>>>>>> future development approach.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> We thought two methods are considered.
> >>>>>>>> One is Albert picks up a patch from ML to ARM repository,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> As this is ARM code, this appears the most natural approach to
> >>>>>>> me
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Another is whether to have pull from the repository by
> >>>>>>>> having a repository for rmobile made.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> If this is an ARM SoC, then it should go through the ARM repo
> >>>>>>> - even if we should later decide that there is so much traffic
> >>>>>>> that a separate rmobile repo would be sustified, thi would
> >>>>>>> still be a sub-repo, which Albert would pull from.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Another option, which Mike is using for, iirc, sf and blackfin,
> >>>>>> is just to add rmobile-master / rmobile-next as branches to the
> >>>>>> u-boot-sh repository.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Yes, this is one of easy way. But Albert won't  pull form
> >>>>> u-boot-sh, if If my understanding is not wrong.
> >>>>
> >>>> This just means that they'll end up on u-boot/master from
> >>>> u-boot.sh (and from there into u-boot-arm later on).
> >>>
> >>> To be clear, what I'm saying is just add a few more branches to
> >>> u-boot-sh that Albert will pull (since they're ARM stuff).  Say
> >>> u-boot-sh/rmobile/master and u-boot-sh/rmobile/next.  Then not get
> >>> too hung up on which repository a merge message comes from. :)
> >>>
> >>
> >> I was going to do by how to explain you.
> >> However, I think that Albert mistook by my shortage of explanation.
> >> Thank you for following up.
> >>
> >> Nobuhiro
> > 
> > I understand that some ARM patches would be stored in some branch
> > (say rmobile/master) of the u-boot-sh repo and pull-requested to me
> > from there.
> > 
> > What I still don't understand is *why* this should be done. Before
> > they get on this branch, the patches would still have to go through
> > the mailing list for review, just like the ARM patches that end up
> > applied to u-boot-arm/master, except they'd have to do through an
> > intermediate branch. If there are benefits in this, someone will
> > have to lay them out for me, because right now I don't see them.
> 
> I think the answer is, given how you wish to work, there's not.  It's
> a workflow problem only.  If it's no easier for you to get a pull
> request from Nobuhiro once the patches have been reviewed than for
> you to pull them out of patchwork once they have been reviewed, then
> since your preference is for patchwork, via patchwork and into
> u-boot-arm is how they'll work.

Thanks for this answer. I personally prefer applying patches from
patchwork directly into u-boot-arm/master.

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.