[PATCH v2 1/1] add missing UARTs pins and I2C entriesfor AllWinner H3 DTSI

martinayotte at gmail.com martinayotte at gmail.com
Wed May 4 11:15:55 PDT 2016


Bonjour Maxime,

On Monday, May 2, 2016 at 2:46:57 AM UTC-4, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 03:50:39PM -0400, Martin Ayotte wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > This patch is submit to provide endusers access to additional UARTs on
> > AllWinner H3 SoC along with I2C ports.
> 
> Unfortunately, your patch cannot be applied in its current form, both
> because of process and technical reasons:
> 
>   * Every commits should have a commit title and log. While you do
>     have a title, you used the log to store your cover letter. This is
>     an issue, because that will be kept in the git history, which is
>     obviously something we don't want.
>     If you want to make a cover letter, you can either send it as a
>     separate mail, or after the "---" below that will be ignored when
>     applying the mails.
>     On the other hand, the commit log should be used to say why ýour
>     doing this patch and why it was needed.
> 
>   * You do not have a Signed-off-by tag in your commit log. This and
>     the point above is documented in Documentation/SubmittingPatches,
>     please make sure to read that first.
> 
>   * Your mailer completely corrupted the patch when you sent it,
>     replacing all tabs by spaces, and wrapping the longer lines. That
>     means that the patch cannot be applied anymore. Please fix your
>     mailer, or use one that just works, like git send-email.
> 
>   * Finally, like Chen-Yu already told you, you're doing several
>     different things here in a single patch, while you should have
>     done separate patches. From what I can see, you're adding pinctrl
>     groups for the uart and i2c pins, and adding the i2c controller
>     nodes. That should have been ideally 3 patches: 1 for the uart
>     pinctrl groups, 1 for the i2c pinctrl groups, 1 for the i2c
>     controller nodes. We also don't take pinctrl groups that are not
>     enabled on any boards to keep the DT size as small as possible.
> 
> Thanks,
> Maxime
> 
> -- 
> Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
> Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
> http://free-electrons.com

Thanks for your help and make me understanding more the process.

I've now prepared a new v3 for that, and just send it.
Strangely, it seems that the 3 patches been sent separately. 
I will try to figure out what happened.

Regards,
Martin.



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