[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/2] tools: mkenvimage: Fixes for reading from pipes

[Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>]

On Sun, 30 Jun 2019 10:40:44 -0400
Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com> wrote:

Hi Tom,

> On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 02:44:59AM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
> 
> > This fixes two issues I had when trying to create an envimage from a
> > more complex pipe:
> > - The read process stops when the read(2) syscall returns less bytes
> >   than requested.
> > - Specifying an input filename expects this to be a regular file.
> > 
> > See the respective commit messages for more details.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > Andre
> > 
> > Andre Przywara (2):
> >   tools: mkenvimage: Fix reading from slow pipe
> >   tools: mkenvimage: Always consider non-regular files
> > 
> >  tools/mkenvimage.c | 71 ++++++++++++++++--------------------------------------
> >  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)  
> 
> These all look fine but in the interest of avoiding unintended
> consequences I'm going to pull these in after v2019.07 as they're
> long-standing bugs rather than regressions being fixed, thanks!

Thanks, that was my intention anyway.

So is the development model now "only send new changes/features in the merge window"? I was suspecting that with this new long stabilisation phase we prepare patches outside of the merge window?
Or was the "Fixes ..." in the subject line giving the wrong impression of my intention?

Cheers,
Andre.