Upstream patch submission checklist

[Joel Stanley]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> On 30 November 2016 at 17:44, Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au> wrote:
>> When we submit the fsi patches upstream we want to go through the
>> following checklist:
>
> You may be interested in patman, which does some of those steps for you:
>
> - runs get_maintainers.pl
> - creates a cover letter and generates patches
> - runs them through checkpatch
> - applies the patches to check that all is well (your last step)
> - emails them out
>
> It also deals with generating change logs.
>
> You should be able to find it in the U-Boot tree (tools/patman) along
> with a README.

Thanks Simon!

This checklist was for the kernel, but you're right, it applies
equally to u-boot patches.

I hadn't seen patman until you mentioned it the other day. I will take a look.

Cheers,

Joel