Re: [RFC PATCH v1 25/31] ARC: [plat-arcfpga] Hooking up platform to ARC UART

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Thu Jan 17 2013 - 05:51:55 EST


On Thursday 17 January 2013, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> So my strategy for v2 series (based off 3.8-rcx) is to introduce devicetree,
> multi-platform-image support (and other key fixes such as syscall restart issues)
> as slap-on patches on top of old code. This is not to avoid any chop-n-dice of
> fixing patches (I've done that in plenty between v1 and v2). Its just that, in
> absence of revision history for ARC port (in upstream later on) - it helps capture
> the evolution of some key features and also for the community it serves as a live
> documentation of bad designs and how they can be fixed.
>
> Is that a reasonable approach for new port which is non-bisectable anyways ?
>

Yes, I think that's fine. you should make that clear in the introductory
email though, as well as in the description of any patches that get
changed significantly by a later patch, to make sure people don't comment
on the same things again when you have already fixed them.

Arnd
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