[U-Boot] [PATCH][v1] r7780mp: fix typo in Ethernet chip model number comment.

Marcel Ziswiler marcel at ziswiler.com
Tue Sep 8 22:41:38 CEST 2009


On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 20:37 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Your patch numbering is really, really confusing. There is a patch
> posted for the first time numbered as v2, another one as v3, and this
> here is the second version of a patch which is still numbered v1.

Sorry if I confused you, that was not my intention at all, but I truly carefully numbered my patches. Every patch having a v > 1 was already posted here once before:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/67275
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/67197
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/67197

> I completely lost you here.
> 
> I don;t understand if these patches are supposed to be part of a
> series, or if they are independet of each other, or what else these
> random vN additions might mean.  Please eluciadate.

If it would be a series, one would add something like [3/6] or such. So it is no series, just a few very simple patches.

> Also please note that new versions of a patch should contain a
> comment (below the "---" line) that describes what has been changed
> compared to the old version, i. e. here something like: "v2: added
> missing SoB line" or so.

OK, this one is new for me, sorry. Unfortunately the one I looked at did not include any such history neither:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/67181

> Given this confusion, I will ignore the whole batch of 7 patches you
> just sent. Please work on the other review comments, and then decide
> how you want to post them - as series or independent patches. Assume
> version numbering restarts from zero, as I really ignore this current
> patch series.

That's really sad.

Cheers

Marcel Ziswiler



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