[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/6] arm/km: add support for portl2 board

Prafulla Wadaskar prafulla at marvell.com
Wed Jun 8 12:50:01 CEST 2011



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Holger Brunck [mailto:holger.brunck at keymile.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 4:06 PM
> To: Prafulla Wadaskar
> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de; Valentin Longchamp; Heiko Schocher
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] arm/km: add support for portl2 board
> 
> Hi Prafulla,
> 
> >> On 06/08/2011 10:35 AM, Prafulla Wadaskar wrote:
> >>>> Subject: [PATCH 2/6] arm/km: add support for portl2 board
> >>>
> >>> Can you add this board support after this patch series or last patch
> >> in this series?
> >>>
> >>
> >> hm, 3/6 and 5/6 has dependencies to the portl2 support patch, but I
> >> think I can
> >> handle this. So I will prepare an update serie 1/5 and a single patch
> >> for the
> >> portl2 support ok? But only for my curiosity, what the reason for
> this
> >> need?
> >>
> >
> > :-)
> > To me a patch series looks like updates/corrections to the existing
> code.
> > Whereas new board support is addition, should be on the top of it.
> > So let's keep them separate for better understanding.
> >
> 
> yes but in this case the board support patch will not work separated
> from the
> updates. You won't be able to commit the single board support patch
> before
> comitting the updates, so logically they belong together. Therefore I
> think it
> is the best if I follow your first advice and place the board support
> patch at
> the end of the serie.

Sure..
Regards..
Prafulla . .


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