[PATCH 1/2] ARM: dts: kirkwood: split lswxl into linkstation lswsxl and lswxl

Roger Shimizu rogershimizu at gmail.com
Tue Jan 19 06:56:47 PST 2016


On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:48 PM, Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:15:35PM +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:05 PM, Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:49:01PM +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote:
>> >> With a few gpio/led-pin changes, including fix for the issue mentioned
>> >> in Debian BTS #810894.
>> >
>> > Hi Roger
>> >
>> > This fix should be a separate patch. We can then get it applied to
>> > stable, so it makes its way back to older kernels.
>>
>> Dear Andrew,
>>
>> So this patchset would be reviewed or not?
>
> I will review it and give comments, but won't accept it.

Please do.
I'll modify accordingly and include it in v2 patchset.

>> Or I have to create another patchset including both fix for
>> "kirkwood-lswxl.dts" and the dts split?
>
> Yes please. And the fix patch should come first, and have a fixes:
> tag.
>
> As a general rule of thumb, it is better to have lots of small, easy
> to review patches, than an couple of big patch. So i would probably
> have:
>
> 1) Fix
> 2) License change.
> 3) Split patch LS-WXL/WSXL
> 4) Split patch LS-WVL/VL
>
> The license change needs a different sort of review to the other
> patches, so having it as a separate patch helps with the review
> process.

Thanks for your clarify!
Now I understand how to proceed.
Will send out my v2 patchset within this week.

Cheers,
Roger



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