[U-Boot] Make preparatory patches that initially have no effect?

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Reinhard Meyer,

In message <4C665CB9.2040406 at emk-elektronik.de> you wrote:
> 
> If I add those discrete changes to each driver patch (where it
> might actually belong), the incremental changes to some of
> those files would require all those driver patches to be applied
> in the right order to avoid conflicts.

Yes, and? What's the problem with that?

> Therefore I would like to put all new header files and all
> changes to header files in one patch which would need to be
> applied before the driver patches.
> 
> That patch would essentially cause no change to existing code.
> 
> Anyone find this idea bad?

Yes,m that's a bad idea. Please re-read the "patches" wiki page.
Commits shall be atomic, and complete. Splitting stuff that
belongstogether is a bad idea, and your first patch that adds unused
stuff will be rejected because of that reason: adding unused stuff.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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