From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vikram Narayanan Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 08:24:00 +0530 Subject: [U-Boot] [RFC][PULL-REQ] MTD update In-Reply-To: <20121228135953.GA14134@bill-the-cat> References: <20121228121741.GA29289@build.ihdev.net> <20121228135953.GA14134@bill-the-cat> Message-ID: <50DFACC8.3020700@gmail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On 12/28/2012 7:29 PM, Tom Rini wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 07:17:42AM -0500, Sergey Lapin wrote: > >> Hi, all! >> >> As I failed to submit 250KB patch to the list >> I will send this pull request >> >> This patch is not for inclusion yet. >> This patch is just update of u-boot MTD with >> Linux kernel's MTD v3.8-rc. > > First, while I appreciate the effort, I'd rather us sync with v3.7 > release rather than the in-flux v3.8. Second, can you please look at > the archives about how we've done these re-syncs before? I really don't > want to take a single giant patch and we're usually able to break this > up into chunks. Thanks! Can someone point to the exact thread where such discussion has happened before? The re-sync has to happen addressing the bisect-ability as well. Already there was a discussion on syncing the UBI layer. So, if some ideas are thrown, it would be beneficial for both MTD and UBI sync. Thanks, Vikram