Hi Joe, On 08/16/2011 03:20 AM, Joe Hershberger wrote: > Hi u-boot, > > What is the recommended way to handle a patch series that depends on > another patch series (already sent but not integrated)? > AFAIK the recommend way is to note in the patch that it depends on another - best with some kind of link from gmane or a message-ID.
> How about a patch that was sent, that at the time didn't depend on > another series, but after review and changes, now depends on those > changes? Then you have to note it in the version history that it now depends on another patch - don't forget to also note it in the normal merge message. > > Even a bit more generally, some of the series are getting quite long > due to small dependencies. This tends to put lots of unrelated > content into the same series based on small dependencies. How is this > supposed to be dealt with? Is it best to make long series or just to > send part of it and wait for it to be integrated before sending the > rest? Hm, here U'am not really sure - I think I would send a complete series - but this is best answered by a custodian. > > Thanks, > -Joe Regards Simon _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
