Dear Albert Aribaud,
On 18.07.11, Albert Aribaud wrote:
You mean you can release a patch before the end of the week, right?
Personally, when a patch was initially submitted before the end of the merge window, I will accept subsequent versions of it and apply them even if they are submitted after the merge window has closed.
The problem is that most of my old OMAP3 patch is obsoleted by Aneesh's OMAP4 patch (http://marc.info/?l=u-boot&m=131082102506002&w=2) and the new SPL- Framework (http://marc.info/?l=u-boot&m=131056990001719&w=2).
Therefore most of my old patch will be invalid - and some new parts will be added. It will be a major change not just some corrections.
But I had to wait for these two patches to get finished to add my changes otherwise duplicated and incomaptible work would have been done.
Only, be sure to follow *all* rules for submitting new versions of a patch set as laid out in http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/U-Boot/Patches#Sending_updated_patch_versions . Particularly:
*always* provide history for *each* patch
*always* provide history *below* the commit message delimiter ('---')
*always* post version N of a patch "in-reply-to" version N-1.
*never* post a patch set twice under the same version. Even if you
forgot some trivial thing like signed-off-by, repost with a *bumped up* version number (and provide updated history)
Be warned that not respecting these rules will result in the patch set being NAKed (and, in turn, will force you to re-post a Vn+1 patch...)
Understood.
Regards Simon