Hi Wolfgang, On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 01:28:12 +0200, Wolfgang Denk <w...@denx.de> wrote:
> Dear "Robert P. J. Day", > > In message <alpine.DEB.2.02.1309140615150.14699@oneiric> you wrote: > > > > given my pedantic nature, i've run across the occasional spelling > > mistake or grammar glitch and want to know the best way to submit a > > patch (or patches) for that. naturally, this stuff is scattered across > > the u-boot tree, so is it better to try to submit a separate patch per > > subsystem, or just one big one? > > > > most of this stuff is in comments so it doesn't represent any > > functional change and therefore shouldn't hurt anything ... stuff like > > spellings of "environent" or "volitle", stuff like that. > > > > best way to do this? thanks. > > It's usually a good idea not to combine too many unrelated changes > into a huge single patch. But then, there is also no need to split > spelling fixes across sub-systems. I recommend to use common sense. > > It's probably a good idea to add a flag like "[COSMETIC]" to the patch > subject, so we know immediately that this does not contain any > functional changes. Maybe rather a "cosmetic:" tag so that the patch is also seen as such inside Git, where the "[...]" flag won't show up. > Best regards, > > Wolfgang Denk > Amicalement, -- Albert. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
