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

[Albert ARIBAUD]

Hi Wolfgang,

On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 01:28:12 +0200, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:

> 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.

Maybe rather a "cosmetic:" tag so that the patch is also seen as such
inside Git, where the "[...]" flag won't show up.

> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk
> 


Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.