When are patches merged to mainline

Hello Wolfgang,

I'm curious about the process for submitted patches and when they appear in the U-Boot codebase under CVS. I've been merging today's CVS snapshot with our mods for a custom PPC440 board and found a piece of missing code. A while back, the patch was submitted to the u-boot-users list by it does not appear to be in the latest codebase.

The specific patch message is:

From: Travis Sawyer <[email protected]>
To: u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] PATCH: update PVR for 440GX Rev C.
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 09:33:53 -0400

I'm a CVS newbee - am I doing something wrong when viewing/downloading the latest U-Boot codebase? The following was used to download the all source:

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/u-boot u-boot

Thank you for any suggestions.

-Andy

When I find the time to review and merge them.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

Software Engineering:  Embedded and Realtime Systems,  Embedded Linux
Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de
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I understand - we all have other real jobs.
Hope you find the time to enjoy the holidays.

Regards, Andy

Hi,

A short explantion[1] might be in order as I have yet to hear this word from Wolfgang ;)

Cheers
Detlev

[1] http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=holiday&x=0&y=0

Nothing under heaven is softer or more yielding than water; but when it attacks
things hard and resistant there is not one of them that can prevail.  For they
can find no way of altering it.  That the yielding conquers the resistant and
the soft conquers the hard is a fact known by all men, yet utilised by none.
                       -- Tao Te Ching