Dirk Behme wrote:
> 
> While discussing with Michael [1] we found that DaVinci patch submission
> rules are not written down somewhere.
> 
> So I did it:
> 
> http://wiki.davincidsp.com/index.php?title=Patch_upstream_sending
> 
> Most of this is stolen from rules on OMAP list ;)
> 
> Opinions?
> 

Thanks for your effort on collecting all these in one place. Given that
you are the submitter/reviewer of most of the patches hitting this
mailing list, this effort is two times valuable.

Since I don't have any experience about patch creation, I can't give any
opinions but more questions if they are welcome.

1) I wonder why patches are not submitted to LAK also. Sometimes I read
some complaints on LAK about there being many platform specific
development lists around. Some people insist that LAK should be the
central place for *any* kind of arm-linux development. While I agree
that LAK is not the place to talk DaVinci specific development, isn't it
reasonable to CC LAK while submitting patches? I really don't have any
intention while asking this. I'm just wondering the reason behind
current methodology.

2) How can we track down submitted patches' status? For example I'm
compiling my git kernel at the moment and I don't know if I should apply
anything else on top of it. I think I should check git history and
compare it with the mailing list messages?

3) I know that there is no one maintaining this tree currently and Kevin
Hilman is performing this task at his own will. However, I wonder if
there is a way to track what is supported on the git kernel. For
example, you prepared a list on this a while ago. Then some patches
submitted, mostly by Troy Kisky, and now I'm not sure about the latest
status. I would maintain a wiki page on this if I were competent. Of
course kernel source is the main place to look for answers, but some
kind of double checking would be more than helpful.

4) Even though you wrote patch attachments are accepted, I think inlines
are still prefered. Right?

5) Do you think acking or replying with "reviewed by:" statements to the
submitted patches is a good practice or not? I'm not asking for myself
of course.

Best regards,
Caglar
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