On Wed 2014-10-08 10:58:24, Michal Simek wrote:
Hi,
On 10/07/2014 02:45 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
Hey,
given that we now have most of the u-boot socfpga stuff in mainline, I decided it would be a good idea to list what we're still missing and we should also decide how to move on now.
First thing I should probably clarify is the late acceptance of the socfpga patches. This is certainly not something we do regularly and is one of the worst possible practices to do, but this time it felt rather important to get the platform in shape, so this exception happened. Furthermore, all of the code in u-boot-socfpga should be based on u-boot-arm and should be submitted through the u-boot-arm repository, not directly to u-boot .
Platform was in this shape for a while that's why I can't see the reason why this happen.
Tom: Does it mean that every platform which is not in good shape can go directly to the mainline in any time? It is definitely something which is good to know.
Well, the platform was in such a wrong shape that it would be hard to cause regressions, and code was self-contained enough that it would not break anything.
I'm not a Tom, but it makes sense to me. Pavel