[U-Boot] most efficient way to submit patches that are typo/grammar fixes?

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Sun Sep 15 01:28:12 CEST 2013


Dear "Robert P. J. Day",

In message <alpine.DEB.2.02.1309140615150.14699 at oneiric> you wrote:
> 
>   given my pedantic nature, i've run across the occasional spelling
> mistake or grammar glitch and want to know the best way to submit a
> patch (or patches) for that. naturally, this stuff is scattered across
> the u-boot tree, so is it better to try to submit a separate patch per
> subsystem, or just one big one?
> 
>   most of this stuff is in comments so it doesn't represent any
> functional change and therefore shouldn't hurt anything ... stuff like
> spellings of "environent" or "volitle", stuff like that.
> 
>   best way to do this? thanks.

It's usually a good idea not to combine too many unrelated changes
into a huge single patch.  But then, there is also no need to split
spelling fixes across sub-systems.  I recommend to use common sense.

It's probably a good idea to add a flag like "[COSMETIC]" to the patch
subject, so we know immediately that this does not contain any
functional changes.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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