On Saturday 23 February 2008, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> > > You want the stuff to go in, so please make it easy for us to review
> > > it.
> >
> > easy to use the mailing list (which if i recall from the last time this
> > came up, you arent going to change).
>
> What do you mean? The size limit? We have a soft-limit of 40 k and a
> hard limit of 100k and a description for exceptions in
> http://www.denx.de/wiki/UBoot/Patches
>
> But this doesn't save you from splitting your changes into small,
> orthogonal pieces.

the last thread i read you said it was going to stay at 40k and 100k was not 
going to happen.

> > > > so for all Blackfin patches, i'll post them and people may review
> > > > them, but you wont merge them until i put them into my tree for you
> > > > to pull ?
> > >
> > > Correct - except that you already have  those  patches  in  some  git
> > > repository,  because otherwise you could not use git-format-patch and
> > > git-send-email to prepare resp. to send the patches.
> >
> > i'm not sure what you're trying to say.  of course git-format-patch only
> > works on patches that have been committed to a repo.
>
> I tried to answer your question - you  asked  "you  wont  merge  them
> until  i put them into my tree" and I confirmed this (as this is what
> a pull request from a custodian means). Your question seemed to imply
> that this was additional effort for you, so I tried to  explain  that
> it  ain't,  as  you will already have such a repository ready to pull
> from (or rather to push into the custodia's repo from  where  I  will
> pull)  because you needed it to send the patches to the mailing list,
> and without sending patches first you cannot send a pull request.

i know how to format/email patches from git.  i just wasnt sure you were 
telling/implying anything i didnt already know.  it would seem not.

> Sorry if this sounds complicated. See
> http://www.denx.de/wiki/UBoot/DevelopmentProcess for details.

i dont think it's complicated at all
-mike

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