[U-Boot] OMAP3 SPL: merge window question

[Graeme Russ]

Hi Simon, Albert

On Monday, July 18, 2011, Simon Schwarz <simonschwarzcor at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Dear Albert Aribaud,
>
> On 18.07.11, Albert Aribaud wrote:
>> You mean you can release a patch before the end of the week, right?
>>
>> Personally, when a patch was initially submitted before the end of
>> the merge window, I will accept subsequent versions of it and apply
>> them even if they are submitted after the merge window has closed.
>
> The problem is that most of my old OMAP3 patch is obsoleted by Aneesh's
> OMAP4 patch (http://marc.info/?l=u-boot&m=131082102506002&w=2) and the new SPL-
> Framework (http://marc.info/?l=u-boot&m=131056990001719&w=2).
>
> Therefore most of my old patch will be invalid - and some new parts will be
> added. It will be a major change not just some corrections.
>
> But I had to wait for these two patches to get finished to add my changes
> otherwise duplicated and incomaptible work would have been done.
>

Sounds like a good candidate for a 'rule bend' IMHO

Regards,

Graeme