[U-Boot] How to manage RMOBILE patches?

[Nobuhiro Iwamatsu]

Hi,

ping....

Best regards,
  Nobuhiro

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu at nigauri.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 2:09 AM, Albert ARIBAUD
> <albert.u.boot at aribaud.net> wrote:
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>> On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 13:58:57 -0700, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 09/06/2012 12:28 PM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
>>> > Hi Nobuhiro,
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 08:20:59 +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
>>> > <iwamatsu at nigauri.org> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Hi, Tom.
>>> >>
>>> >> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
>>> >>> On 09/05/2012 04:18 AM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
>>> >>>> Hi Nobuhiro,
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 11:26:37 +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
>>> >>>> <iwamatsu at nigauri.org> wrote:
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>> Hi,
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
>>> >>>>>> On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 09:15:56PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>>> >>>>>>> Dear Nobuhiro Iwamatsu,
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>> In message
>>> >>>>>>> <CABMQnVLBEEjcEtfTzdeThHfTLp=b24QSOgnFjbZr-8YWYTJUhg at mail.gmail.com>
>>> >>>>>>> you wrote:
>>> >>>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>> I am working supporting  Renesas RMOBILE to U-Boot.
>>> >>>>>>>> Renesas's RMOBILE SoC family contains an ARM Cortex-A9, and
>>> >>>>>>>> this uses the same IP as SH.
>>> >>>>>>>> (For example, timer, ether, serial, etc.)
>>> >>>>>>>> I already sent to patches of rmobile, I got review from some
>>> >>>>>>>> developers. And the patch is managed by the arm/rmobile
>>> >>>>>>>> branch of u-boot-sh[0] which I have maintained, now.
>>> >>>>>>>> Since I had you take the patch of rmobile into an ARM
>>> >>>>>>>> repository, I consulted with Albert about the
>>> >>>>>>>> future development approach.
>>> >>>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>> We thought two methods are considered.
>>> >>>>>>>> One is Albert picks up a patch from ML to ARM repository,
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>> As this is ARM code, this appears the most natural approach to
>>> >>>>>>> me
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>> Another is whether to have pull from the repository by
>>> >>>>>>>> having a repository for rmobile made.
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>> If this is an ARM SoC, then it should go through the ARM repo
>>> >>>>>>> - even if we should later decide that there is so much traffic
>>> >>>>>>> that a separate rmobile repo would be sustified, thi would
>>> >>>>>>> still be a sub-repo, which Albert would pull from.
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>> Another option, which Mike is using for, iirc, sf and blackfin,
>>> >>>>>> is just to add rmobile-master / rmobile-next as branches to the
>>> >>>>>> u-boot-sh repository.
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> Yes, this is one of easy way. But Albert won't  pull form
>>> >>>>> u-boot-sh, if If my understanding is not wrong.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> This just means that they'll end up on u-boot/master from
>>> >>>> u-boot.sh (and from there into u-boot-arm later on).
>>> >>>
>>> >>> To be clear, what I'm saying is just add a few more branches to
>>> >>> u-boot-sh that Albert will pull (since they're ARM stuff).  Say
>>> >>> u-boot-sh/rmobile/master and u-boot-sh/rmobile/next.  Then not get
>>> >>> too hung up on which repository a merge message comes from. :)
>>> >>>
>>> >>
>>> >> I was going to do by how to explain you.
>>> >> However, I think that Albert mistook by my shortage of explanation.
>>> >> Thank you for following up.
>>> >>
>>> >> Nobuhiro
>>> >
>>> > I understand that some ARM patches would be stored in some branch
>>> > (say rmobile/master) of the u-boot-sh repo and pull-requested to me
>>> > from there.
>>> >
>>> > What I still don't understand is *why* this should be done. Before
>>> > they get on this branch, the patches would still have to go through
>>> > the mailing list for review, just like the ARM patches that end up
>>> > applied to u-boot-arm/master, except they'd have to do through an
>>> > intermediate branch. If there are benefits in this, someone will
>>> > have to lay them out for me, because right now I don't see them.
>>>
>>> I think the answer is, given how you wish to work, there's not.  It's
>>> a workflow problem only.  If it's no easier for you to get a pull
>>> request from Nobuhiro once the patches have been reviewed than for
>>> you to pull them out of patchwork once they have been reviewed, then
>>> since your preference is for patchwork, via patchwork and into
>>> u-boot-arm is how they'll work.
>>
>> Thanks for this answer. I personally prefer applying patches from
>> patchwork directly into u-boot-arm/master.
>>
> OK, could you pickup rmobile patches from patchwork, please?
> But I already archived rmobile patches in patchwork......
>
> Best regards,
>   Nobuhiro
>
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> Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
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