[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 0/3] libfdt: fix bugs

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Sat Jul 18 16:36:57 CEST 2015


Hi Scott,

On 14 July 2015 at 12:16, Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-07-15 at 01:08 +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>> This series fixes bugs of libfdt.
>>
>> These functions were added by Thierry for U-boot only.
>> So, we do not send it back to the DTC ML.
>
> If they're not part of upstream dtc, why are they in the libfdt directory?
> Have they been sent upstream but not merged?
>
> -Scott

To avoid roadblocks we take patches in libfdt before they are merged
upstream. I then tidy things up when I see them applied. So sometimes
we are a little ahead of libfdt for a while. It works out OK since we
need to sync with upstream regularly anyway.

Regards,
Simon


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