On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 10:47:30PM -0400, Greg Malysa wrote:
Hi Tom,
I wanted to get a little bit of guidance before dumping some patches on the mailing list. I've been preparing to submit support we've developed for the Analog Devices SC5xx SoCs including both core SoC support and specific device trees and defconfigs for the eval kits available from ADI. I've submitted several small patches to touch various shared parts of U-Boot that we needed to extend to get this hardware running and to get some familiarity with using patman to format and submit things, but now I have a roughly 15k line changeset consisting of a new mach type and all of the required drivers for the system. It's broken down into a bunch of commits: one for the mach type support, one per driver we've added, and one per target board supported.
What is the best way to submit this? Ideally I'd love to get feedback on individual drivers from the respective subsystem maintainers, but it seems rude to have a 20-element patch series that gets resubmitted each time feedback comes in for one component. If we break it down into separate patches for each piece, what would be the best way to ensure that all of the dependencies are merged in order?
Well, I would first make sure that CI passes for your tree. Then, make sure that you're using OF_UPSTREAM to get your device trees as well. Then just submit the SoC core + board (and make sure it's using plain text environment and standard boot and so on), then start with the additional drivers.