Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy

2009-04-28 Thread Detlev Zundel
Hi Wolfgang, And if we want to make it perfect, each -rc could get a similar announcement, too. Would ne not just add a lot of noise to the ML, without any real new information? If you want detailed information about each action, please feel free and register a RSS feed on the

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy

2009-04-28 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Detlev, In message m2iqkpp49c@ohwell.denx.de you wrote: And if we want to make it perfect, each -rc could get a similar announcement, too. ^^^ No, I meant exactly what I wrote - the RSS feed on the git repo

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

2009-04-27 Thread Jerry Van Baren
Wolfgang Denk wrote: Dear David Brownell, In message 200904250105.41050.davi...@pacbell.net you wrote: Yes. The issue is needing to guess what's up ... so for example, I seem to observe that merge window closed must not be the same as first RC is out, which isn't how the Linux process

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

2009-04-27 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Jerry Van Baren, In message 49f5b6af.5060...@ge.com you wrote: Maybe I pout a little more meaning in the words release candiate. After the end of a merge window, there is usually still a long backlog of patches that has not been merged, and after that there are several

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy

2009-04-27 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Detlev, In message m2hc0aqetd@ohwell.denx.de you wrote: And if we want to make it perfect, each -rc could get a similar announcement, too. Would ne not just add a lot of noise to the ML, without any real new information? If you want detailed information about each

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy

2009-04-26 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear David, In message 200904251153.51380.davi...@pacbell.net you wrote: Just type u-boot merge window at google and click on the very first link. Several other key infrastructure projects make it easy to find that info even without using a search engine. Come on and be reasonable.

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

2009-04-25 Thread Ben Warren
Hi Dirk, On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Dirk Behme dirk.be...@googlemail.comwrote: Dear Jean-Christophe, David Brownell wrote: ... http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2009-April/050802.html the Patch series and this has been apply in the u-boot-arm/next I see that branch now

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

2009-04-25 Thread David Brownell
On Friday 24 April 2009, Dirk Behme wrote: Btw.: Now that -next exists, I can't find patch linked above in it, though :( http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot/u-boot-arm.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/next shows it ... respects SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT. Make sure to look at the next branch there; you can

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

2009-04-25 Thread David Brownell
On Friday 24 April 2009, Ben Warren wrote: My approach is that once the merge window closes, new patches that are not bug fixes go into 'next', which is for the release after the current one (in this case 07). Then I'm curious how that dm9000 EEPROM reading bugfix landed in net/next ... or is

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy

2009-04-25 Thread Dirk Behme
Hi Ben, Ben Warren wrote: Hi Dirk, On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Dirk Behme dirk.be...@googlemail.comwrote: Dear Jean-Christophe, David Brownell wrote: ... http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2009-April/050802.html the Patch series and this has been apply in the

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

2009-04-25 Thread Dirk Behme
David Brownell wrote: On Friday 24 April 2009, Dirk Behme wrote: Btw.: Now that -next exists, I can't find patch linked above in it, though :( http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot/u-boot-arm.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/next shows it ... respects SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT. Make sure to look at the

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

2009-04-25 Thread Ben Warren
Hi David, David Brownell wrote: On Friday 24 April 2009, Ben Warren wrote: My approach is that once the merge window closes, new patches that are not bug fixes go into 'next', which is for the release after the current one (in this case 07). Then I'm curious how that dm9000

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy

2009-04-25 Thread Ben Warren
Hi Dirk, Dirk Behme wrote: Hi Ben, Ben Warren wrote: Hi Dirk, On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Dirk Behme dirk.be...@googlemail.comwrote: Dear Jean-Christophe, David Brownell wrote: ... http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2009-April/050802.html the Patch series and this has

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

2009-04-25 Thread David Brownell
On Saturday 25 April 2009, Ben Warren wrote: Then I'm curious how that dm9000 EEPROM reading bugfix landed in net/next ... or is the point that the merge window for 2009.05 is still open, since RC1 hasn't yet been tagged? In this case a pretty good argument could be made that it's a

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

2009-04-25 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear David Brownell, In message 200904250003.51845.davi...@pacbell.net you wrote: Then I'm curious how that dm9000 EEPROM reading bugfix landed in net/next ... or is the point that the merge window for 2009.05 is still open, since RC1 hasn't yet been tagged? No. End of merge window and

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy

2009-04-25 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Dirk, In message 49f2b6b9.7040...@googlemail.com you wrote: My approach is that once the merge window closes, new patches that are not bug fixes go into 'next', which is for the release after the current one (in this case 07). When the merge window opens again, next goes to master

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

2009-04-25 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear David Brownell, In message 200904250105.41050.davi...@pacbell.net you wrote: Yes. The issue is needing to guess what's up ... so for example, I seem to observe that merge window closed must not be the same as first RC is out, which isn't how the Linux process works. But that's the

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy

2009-04-25 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear David, in message 200904250555.17450.davi...@pacbell.net you wrote: I think the questions on this topic reflect a reality that such status updates aren't yet visible enough. (The original question was generic, not ARM-specific.) I'm not going to push this information down people's

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy

2009-04-25 Thread Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
On 09:07 Sat 25 Apr , Dirk Behme wrote: Hi Ben, Ben Warren wrote: Hi Dirk, On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Dirk Behme dirk.be...@googlemail.comwrote: Dear Jean-Christophe, David Brownell wrote: ... http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2009-April/050802.html the Patch series

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy

2009-04-25 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD, In message 20090425170829.ga30...@game.jcrosoft.org you wrote: - What's about patches that are sent while open merge window or before, but need some update cycles and are finalized while rc? Depends, if the patch is send just before the merge just to

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy

2009-04-25 Thread Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
On 19:30 Sat 25 Apr , Wolfgang Denk wrote: Dear Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD, In message 20090425170829.ga30...@game.jcrosoft.org you wrote: - What's about patches that are sent while open merge window or before, but need some update cycles and are finalized while rc?

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy

2009-04-25 Thread David Brownell
Hi Wolfgang, On Saturday 25 April 2009, Wolfgang Denk wrote: in message 200904250555.17450.davi...@pacbell.net you wrote: I think the questions on this topic reflect a reality that such status updates aren't yet visible enough. (The original question was generic, not ARM-specific.)

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy

2009-04-25 Thread David Brownell
On Saturday 25 April 2009, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote: For me when the first version of a [patch] is send after the close of the merge and it's not a bug fix, then it will go to the next MW. The only exception will be if the patch come from an announce or a thread discussion

Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy

2009-04-25 Thread Dirk Behme
Wolfgang Denk wrote: Dear Ben Warren, In message 49f2bed7.9070...@gmail.com you wrote: - What about patches which are sent immediately after merge window closed (hours - 1 or 2 days)? I already heard something like 'no problem if it comes some hours later, if it is fine then I will still