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

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Sat Jul 18 19:42:32 CEST 2015


On Sat, 2015-07-18 at 08:36 -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> 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.

That's fine, but from what Masahiro said, it sounded like there was no intent 
to ever push these to upstream dtc.

-Scott



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