[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/5] DTS: imx28: Copy imx28 device tree related files from Linux kernel (v5.1.2)

Marek Vasut
2019-06-14T10:49:10Z

On 6/14/19 12:41 PM, Lukasz Majewski wrote:
> Hi Marek,
>
>> On 6/14/19 8:49 AM, Lukasz Majewski wrote:
>>> This commit copies from the Linux kernel (tag v5.1.2) i.MX28
>>> related device tree files.
>>>
>>
>> Linux 5.1.9 is already out,
>
> I will check if there are any differences and update.
>
>> commit hash is missing.
>> Shouldn't the tags be something like "ARM: dts: imx" ? Fix the tags
>> globally.
>
> With those tags it is indeed interesting.
>
> As fair as I know those are used by patman to indicate automatically
> the receiver(s).
>
> One can see them defined in ./doc/git-mailrc
>
> And we now have "dts" - which is not defined there, but shows the
> "purpose/target" subsystem.
>
> The "arm" causes sending mail to u-boot, Tom and Albert.
> The "imx" to uboot and Stefano.
>
> This might be important if I did not used Series-cc: and Series-to:
> from patman (which I did).
>
>
> I would appreciate if there were any guidelines to use those tags
> (there aren't any for Linux though, just there is an Maintainer's
> "convention").
>
> By "convention" I mean a sorting rule in Maintainer's mail program set
> arbitrarily to filter out not eligible patches :-)

The general agreement was to stick with the linux tags, and that's what
git log --oneline arch/arm/dts would indicate as well. Maybe patman
needs to be fixed to stop inventing weird tags.

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Best regards,
Marek Vasut