Upstream patch submission checklist

[Simon Glass]

Hi Joel,

On 30 November 2016 at 19:53, Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au> wrote:
> 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.

Yes, actually patman is useful for kernel as well - generally anything
that uses kernel style.

Regards,
Simon