[U-Boot] [PATCH 04/20] arm/km: add kmnusa board support

Holger Brunck holger.brunck at keymile.com
Tue Jun 12 13:43:25 CEST 2012


On 06/12/2012 01:09 PM, Prafulla Wadaskar wrote:
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Holger Brunck [mailto:holger.brunck at keymile.com]
>> Sent: 12 June 2012 16:07
>> To: Prafulla Wadaskar
>> Cc: Valentin Longchamp; prafulla at mavell.com; u-boot at lists.denx.de;
>> Gerlando Falauto
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/20] arm/km: add kmnusa board support
>>
>> On 06/12/2012 11:57 AM, Prafulla Wadaskar wrote:
>>>>>>  board/keymile/km_arm/km_arm.c     |    9 +-
>>>>>>  boards.cfg                        |    1 +
>>>>>>  include/configs/km/km_arm.h       |   44 +++++-
>>>>>>  include/configs/km_kirkwood.h     |   67 +++++++--
>>>>>>  6 files changed, 392 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
>>>>>>  create mode 100644 board/keymile/km_arm/128M16-1.cfg
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>>>>>> index 0445539..aa11268 100644
>>>>>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>>>>>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>>>>>> @@ -738,6 +738,7 @@ Sergey Lapin <slapin at ossfans.org>
>>>>>>  Valentin Longchamp <valentin.longchamp at keymile.com>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>       km_kirkwood     ARM926EJS (Kirkwood SoC)
>>>>>> +     kmnusa          ARM926EJS (Kirkwood SoC)
>>>>>
>>>>> Again.... I would like to suggest to separate out new boards
>>>> addition, bugfixes/updates specific to km_*boards and generic
>> kirkwood
>>>> specific patches.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's always faster to merger small patch series that big one.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes ok, but was has this to do with this patch? What is meant to be
>>>> kirkwood
>>>> specific? This is all board related code.
>>>
>>> I agree, let's separate out -
>>> 1. bugfix/updates patch series to current code
>>> 2. "Kirkwood specific" means the changes to the Kirkwood related
>> file that may affects other boards, for ex
>> arch/arm/cpu/arm926ejs/mach-kirkwood/*
>>> 3. Additional board supports
>>>
>>> And if possible these patches should be independent so that can be
>> pulled independently
>>>
>>
>> the only patch in the serie which modifies common Kirkwood related
>> files are:
>> [PATCH 03/20] arm/kirkwood: protect the ENV_SPI #defines
>>
>> Do you want me to send this one seperately? I can do that. So then we
>> resend
>> again a new patch serie I guess...
> 
> It would be a great you can split 20 patches in to smaller patch series as per above suggestion.
> 

Again, the only patch wich is common Kirkwood related is the above mentioned
patch. I can extract this one if you want me to.

All others are  somehow interconnected and therefore it makes sense to have it
in one patch serie.

Regards
Holger


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