[U-Boot] [PATCH ARM 4/4] Change s3c24x0 register struct members to lower case

Tom Tom.Rix at windriver.com
Sat Feb 6 19:17:27 CET 2010


kevin.morfitt at fearnside-systems.co.uk wrote:
> 
> 
> On 06/02/2010 16:35, Tom wrote:
>> kevin.morfitt at fearnside-systems.co.uk wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 06/02/2010 15:14, Tom wrote:
>>>> kevin.morfitt at fearnside-systems.co.uk wrote:
>>>>> Hi Wolfgang
>>>>>
>>>>> On 06/02/2010 14:26, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>>>>>> Dear "kevin.morfitt at fearnside-systems.co.uk",
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In message<4B6D687F.2060606 at fearnside-systems.co.uk>    you wrote:
>>>>>>> The patches are split so that each patch makes only one type of
>>>>>>> change,
>>>>>>> so there's only one thing that needs to be checked in each patch.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - patches 1 and 2 only make white-space changes (the change was too
>>>>>>> big
>>>>>>> so I had to split it into 2 patches)
>>>>>> I think this should be merged into a single patch.
>>>>>
>>>>> OK. It'll be about 140K though so I'llput it on a web site.
>>>>>
>>>> IMO So it could be posted to the mailing list, it would be better to
>>>> split.
>>>>
>>>> Was the whitespace changes done by hand or automatically with something
>>>> like indent as mentioned http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/CodingStyle?
>>>
>>> It was done automatically using Lindent but I had to do some manual
>>> tidying up because Lindent doesn't always get things right.
>>
>> Maybe a good way to spit the patch is
>> 1. Lindent
>> 2. Manual
>> So reviewer could spend more attention on the much smaller #2.
>> Would this be easy to do?
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion but I think it might make it harder to check.
> The Lindent changes would still be > 100K so it would end up split into
> 3 patches, and the last patch would be changing code that was already
> changed in patches 1 and 2.
> 
> I'd prefer to leave it split into two patches and submit it inline
> really. Each of the two patches is independent - they change different
> files.

Ok.
Tom

> 
> Kevin
>> Tom
>>>
>>> Kevin
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Tom
>>>>



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