Dear Reinhard Meyer, In message <4c665cb9.2040...@emk-elektronik.de> you wrote: > > If I add those discrete changes to each driver patch (where it > might actually belong), the incremental changes to some of > those files would require all those driver patches to be applied > in the right order to avoid conflicts.
Yes, and? What's the problem with that? > Therefore I would like to put all new header files and all > changes to header files in one patch which would need to be > applied before the driver patches. > > That patch would essentially cause no change to existing code. > > Anyone find this idea bad? Yes,m that's a bad idea. Please re-read the "patches" wiki page. Commits shall be atomic, and complete. Splitting stuff that belongstogether is a bad idea, and your first patch that adds unused stuff will be rejected because of that reason: adding unused stuff. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de Perl already has an IDE. It's called Unix. -- Tom Christiansen in 375bd...@cs.colorado.edu _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot