Darren:

Ultimately we need to get these patches up to the LTSI.  It would make things 
easier, right now we are on a strict time schedule and we need to get the 
standard/axxia/base branch corrected with proper checkpatching  and the latest 
changes.

We have a few more patches to submit and then we can concentrate on getting in 
onto LTSI.

Can we just get passed  this push.

Charlie


On 2/19/14, 14:24, "Paul, Charlie" <charlie.p...@windriver.com> wrote:

>
>> Are these patches backports from mainline?
>
>[Butler, Paul] no, these are not backports. A backport is when you 
>generate a patch for a fix from a newer kernel (3.11, 3.12, etc) and 
>apply the patch in the older kernel.  For example, if we had found a 
>fix for a bug in kernel.org mainline and wanted to use that fix in our 
>3.10 yocto kernel.

:-) Yes, I'm aware of what a backport is.

>
>> If so, they are lacking the
>> upstream commit Ids. If not, to which branch did you want these 
>> patches to be applied?
>
>[Butler, Paul] standard/axxia/base
>The whole branch name should be in the subject line. Just "axxia" is 
>not enough.
>
>Is there a strategy in place to get these upstream so they do not
>> have to be maintained here?
>
>[Butler, Paul] not yet, but we should figure out what/how. Bruce has 
>asked the same question before. We need to start looking at that.

It's a great deal more effort to continually forward port this work as the 
linux-yocto kernel tracks mainline than it is to get it into mainline first and 
then pull it back once to linux-yocto, and the following versions come for free 
since you got it upstream. You get the added benefit of higher quality code 
having gone through the rigorous code review process of getting it into the 
mainline kernel.

I would suggest you consider LTSI as a backport point if you need a longer term 
stable point for productization as well as this provide even more eyes on your 
code, additional validation and QA from other users of LTSI, etc. LTSI gets 
pulled into linux-yocto as a matter of course.

Thanks,

Darren Hart

>
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:linux-yocto-boun...@yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Darren Hart
>Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 11:44 AM
>To: Charlie Paul; linux-yocto@yoctoproject.org
>Cc: SangeethaRao
>Subject: Re: [linux-yocto] [PATCH 03/18] arch/powerpc: Checking in 
>correct USB entries to ACP3421 DTS
>
>On 2/18/14, 9:26, "Charlie Paul" <cpaul.windri...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>From: SangeethaRao <sangeetha....@lsi.com>
>
>A commit message is required.
>
>>
>>Signed-off-by: SangeethaRao <sangeetha....@lsi.com>
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