On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Friday, October 22, 2010 11:00:37 Steve Sakoman wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: >> > Jason Liu wrote: >> >> Geting mac address from FUSE is the right way for mx51 and it's not >> >> difficult to add FUSE read function due to the FUSE read is simple as >> >> the memory read. I have seen that Shawn has posted the patches to >> >> Linaro-uboot git there. >> > >> > It's a pity that Linaro does it's development out-of-tree, but it's >> > their decision, and we cannot help it. >> >> Hmmm . . . I'm doing OMAP3 & 4 u-boot work for Linaro and *all* of my >> work is based on current mainline! > > technically speaking, *everyone* is doing work "based on mainline". but if > you're maintaining a fork without getting merged, then Wolfgang's statement is > still pretty correct. if i cant checkout current mainline from Wolfgang and > get stuff working, then something is wrong.
I can't speak for others, but the lifetime of a patch in my working branch is just a few days before it gets posted to the list. Frankly I can't imagine working any closer to top of tree. I do daily merges and builds and send fix patches as soon as I have them. Steve _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
