[Gta04-owner] Updates for gta04 DTS file.

Radek Polak psonek2 at seznam.cz
Thu Jan 8 10:11:45 CET 2015


On Wednesday, January 07, 2015 21:22:42 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Am 07.01.2015 um 20:27 schrieb NeilBrown <neilb at suse.de>:
> > Definitely agree here.  To me, the patches are as much a part of the
> > result as the working code is.   The "patch" is the basic unit of
> > communication between developers.
> 
> Which is quite a high barrier for new developers… To me it appears that
> long-term kernel developers are not even aware of this effect.

Are you avare of git blame command? With correctly splitted and commented 
patches it's invaluable tool - every line of source code is commented with 
commit message. If you dont split and comment your patches correctly, git 
blame is useless.

> It is like looking at your bank account and seeing only the many + and - .
> Until there is a line “balance” you don’t know if the account is good or
> bancrupt.

If you apply the patches, you have the balance. Without good paches you have 
just the balance and no idea why did you bancrupted.

BR

Radek
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