[PATCH][RFC] arm: Add basic support for VIA/WonderMedia SoC's
Russell King - ARM Linux
linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Tue Jul 13 04:29:07 EDT 2010
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:26:20PM +0400, Alexey Charkov wrote:
> 2010/7/13 Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>:
> > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 08:38:26PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> >> I think what you did is OK. It is best to include the whole file as
> >> generated from the machine registry database when you need it. This way
> >> the merge conflict can easily be resolved by simply keeping the latest
> >> version from either merged branches.
> >
> > Not quite - I'm now undoing some of the changes a mach-types update would
> > bring because people aren't talking to me to fix stuff in the machine
> > registry. So I'm no longer just committing the updated file off the
> > website.
> >
> > The problem is that git will automatically merge those "updates", which
> > makes it much more difficult to sort out.
> >
>
> So the correct way is to submit a patch and just state that it
> requires an update of mach-types containing FOO and BAR, is it?
Yes please - that way I get a prompt to update mach-types. I've
already done so last night, so it should already be up to date
there. It'll be in mainline in a couple of days or so.
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