[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 0/3] mtd, ubi, ubifs: resync with Linux-3.14

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Scott,

In message <1404159636.2435.165.camel at snotra.buserror.net> you wrote:
>
> > I agree that #ifdef's should be avoided, but then here they also serve
> > a documentation purpose as they clearly mark areas of code that are
> > specific to U-Boot, or that are not used in U-Boot.
> 
> git diff can do that too, without reducing readability or increasing the
> likelihood of mismerges.

(git) diff needs a reference to diff against. Maybe I missed some
earlier comments about that, but how exactly should this be done
here?

If we want to have strictly bisectable code in mainline, I don't
really see how to provide an unmodified source reference to show the
U-Boot specific diffs.

Can you please explain (maybe again, sorry) how you think the code
update should be done do both allow such a git diff and remain
bisectable?  The ways I can see all require a non-working / non-com-
piling intermediate step.


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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