[U-Boot] ATMEL Custodians == /dev/null ??

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Reinhard Meyer,

In message <4C5DE9F7.4070701 at emk-elektronik.de> you wrote:
>
> 1. If the patch is simple enough reasoning might be sufficient.

Might. But things might go wrong.  Turn around - Murphy is standing
right behind you.

> 2. If its a new driver, it has to be proven to work (reliably) on at 
> least one board (other
> boards cannot break since they won't use it), and it should be 

Adding a bad driver can break ALL boards. You just have to mess up the
Makefile.

> reasonably obvious that the new
> code is not board specific, or (if REALLY unavoidable) that board 
> specific parts are at least
> obvious by using #if defined(CONFIG_<board>)

CONFIG_<board> should always be avoided and replaced by an appropriate
CONFIG_<feature>.

> 3. If its a rework, it should be shown working on at least one board in 
> each architecture (if it
> is a shared source)

That's what happens often, and turns out to be unreliable often, too.

> 4. If nobody but the submitter is able/willing to test the patch, what 
> do we do then?

If nobody complains, it goes in.

> Q: who resolves conflicts in very common files like MAINTAINERS, 
> boards.cfg etc, they
> are bound to have merge conflicts when you pull?

If that's the only problems, and if your code is based on reasonably
current versions, I will fix these.

> Q: boards.cfg does not appear to be completely sorted, its not even 
> sorted by ARCH.

The file is mostly sorted, as described in the comment.

> And using the vi command does sort the header of that file, too....

Not if you place the cursor (i. e. the '.') on the first non-comment
line.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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