[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 00/10] sunxi: Bug fixes, sun4i and sun5i support and network improvements

Ian Campbell
2014-07-06T21:28:00Z

On Sun, 2014-07-06 at 22:54 +0200, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> Hi Ian,
>
> On Sun, 06 Jul 2014 20:22:31 +0100, Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2014-07-06 at 21:18 +0200, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> > > Hi Ian,
> > >
> > > Slightly off-topic, but... When you provide some code excerpt, you
> > > should make sure it doesn't look like a git patch, because if it does,
> > > then our Patchwork, which reads the list, will think it is actually a
> > > patch submission:
> >
> > I suppose this was a submission, although I was mostly planning to short
> > circuit it straight into the appropriate branch.
>
> Hmm, short-circuiting a code change is risky -- all U-Boot code should
> go through the list and be reviewed.

Oh, I didn't mean to suggest skipping all that good stuff, just that the
patch is already in a local branch ready to go when it is acked so I
don't need to fetch it from patchwork.

Getting it reviewed was why I posted it.

> If your post was a submission, then it should be the pure result of a
> git format-patch or of a patman command.

The thing I posted was the output of git format-patch.

> > How much do I need to corrupt something before patchwork will ignore it?
>
> Basically, if you can (try to) 'git apply' the post, chances are PW
> will consider it a submission.

I think that is what I wanted on this occasion.

Ian.