From: Paulraj, Sandeep <s-paulraj@ti.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] Quick sanity test after my NAND patches
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:44:51 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0554BEF07D437848AF01B9C9B5F0BC5D93D82F26@dlee01.ent.ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AF4971B.9080602@ge.com>
> Paulraj, Sandeep wrote:
> > Scott, Jerry,
>
> [snip]
>
> >> I don't know if the technique will work for you (Sandeep), but for the
> >> libfdt synchronization, I literally extracted the patches from the
> >> master DTC repository (git format-patch) and applied them (git am).
> >
> > This might not work as git-am will complain about not being able to
> apply clean.
>
> I may be missing something, but if you hand-edit the patches so that
> they are still valid patches, they will apply cleanly. In my hand
> editing, I cut out all patch hunks to non-existing (for me) files (from
> the patch's file name header to the next file name header). This is
> simply a delete operation so it is pretty hard to screw up. I also
> changed the file paths for all file references to libfdt.h which is
> simply a substitution problem, again hard to screw up.
>
> I don't know how complex your starting point patches are, so that may be
> what I'm missing.
This is what I am referring to
>
> Note that the MD5 hash will be different between my edited patch and the
> original patch, so you won't be able to correlate the u-boot/libfdt
> patch directly to the DTC/libfdt patch, but that would happen anyway.
Yes that's true
>
> [snip]
>
> Best regards,
> gvb
Basically if I maintain the correct author and signoff, things should be OK.
I'll do it some way or the other, sooner rather than later.
I'll wait for Scott to say which ones need to be resubmitted.
Thanks,
Sandeep
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-06 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-06 20:47 [U-Boot] Quick sanity test after my NAND patches Paulraj, Sandeep
2009-11-06 21:08 ` Scott Wood
2009-11-06 21:17 ` Jerry Van Baren
2009-11-06 21:28 ` Paulraj, Sandeep
2009-11-06 21:37 ` Jerry Van Baren
2009-11-06 21:44 ` Paulraj, Sandeep [this message]
2009-11-08 22:59 ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-11-06 22:03 ` Scott Wood
2009-11-06 22:14 ` Paulraj, Sandeep
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