Question regarding patches

Question regarding patches

[Stephen Polkowski]

Hello Maintainers,

	I submitted a patch about a week ago for the Via Rhine (10/100) driver [1001269]. 
There was a small bug that required a simple fix.  I listed the patch under Ethernet, 
but now I'm wondering if I should have listed it under "Patches and Contributions"?

	Am I following the correct procedures to get this patch into the CVS tree?
How long does it usually take to get a change into CVS?  The reason I ask is that I'm 
planning a REDBOOT rhine package for IA32.  I already have it working my office.  I 
just wanted to see how my simple Rhine patch worked out before submitting a REDBOOT 
rhine package.

	Ultimately, I want to release a new Via Velocity (Gigabit) ethernet driver for eCos. 
  So, I'm getting my feet wet with some small changes first.

Thanks in advance,

Stephen
		
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Stephen Polkowski
Centaur Technology
VIA Technologies, Inc

Re: Question regarding patches

[John Dallaway]

Hi Stephen

Stephen Polkowski wrote:

>     I submitted a patch about a week ago for the Via Rhine (10/100)
> driver [1001269]. There was a small bug that required a simple fix.  I
> listed the patch under Ethernet, but now I'm wondering if I should have
> listed it under "Patches and Contributions"?

Submitting patches against the "Patches and Contributions" component is
preferable, but we are certainly aware of your patch.

> Am I following the correct procedures to get this patch into the CVS
> tree? How long does it usually take to get a change into CVS?

That's a difficult question to answer. It all depends on the complexity
of the patch, the current workload of the eCos maintainers and whether
any patch revision is necessary. Anything from a few hours to many months.

> The reason I
> ask is that I'm planning a REDBOOT rhine package for IA32.  I already
> have it working my office.  I just wanted to see how my simple Rhine
> patch worked out before submitting a REDBOOT rhine package.
> 
>     Ultimately, I want to release a new Via Velocity (Gigabit) ethernet
> driver for eCos.  So, I'm getting my feet wet with some small changes
> first.

Great! I do recommend that you get the copyright assignment in place
early as this can take quite a while to process. Ref:

  http://ecos.sourceware.org/contrib.html

Thank you for contributing...

John Dallaway
eCos maintainer
http://www.dallaway.org.uk/john