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From: Jonathan Larmour <jifl@eCosCentric.com>
To: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
Cc: John Dallaway <jld@ecoscentric.com>,
	eCos Maintainers <ecos-maintainers@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [APPROVE] EB40 RedBoot doc patch for 2.0 branch
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 20:28:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E78D255.5090708@eCosCentric.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1048092814.9579.5271.camel@hermes.chez-thomas.org>

Gary Thomas wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 09:32, John Dallaway wrote:
> 
>>Name: EB40 RedBoot doc patch
>>
>>Description: Tweaks to the instructions for installing RedBoot on an Atmel 
>>AT91EB40 board. The existing instructions are misleading in places and the 
>>length of the current ROMRAM images requires that the 'fis write' rune be
>>updated.
>>
>>Rationale: Doc patches are harmless providing they don't introduce build doc 
>>errors. Without this patch, installation of RedBoot on the AT91EB40 board 
>>according to the instructions will fail.
>>
>>Patch: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/ecos-patches/2003-03/msg00139.html
> 
> 
> IMO as long as the changes reflect the state of the branch, there
> needs to be no further discussion - certainly not for platform
> details, etc.

In fact, shall we just say that doc patches (like target patches) are exempt?

I'm also beginning to dislike this "voting" thing as such in the sense 
that it's very noisy and it's not clear when consensus is reached and it's 
okay to apply the patch. I'd prefer it to be "objections only".

Jifl
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-19 20:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-19 16:31 John Dallaway
2003-03-19 16:53 ` Gary Thomas
2003-03-19 20:28   ` Jonathan Larmour [this message]
2003-03-20  1:32     ` Nick Garnett

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