Bonjour Maxime, On Monday, May 2, 2016 at 2:46:57 AM UTC-4, Maxime Ripard wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 03:50:39PM -0400, Martin Ayotte wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > This patch is submit to provide endusers access to additional UARTs on > > AllWinner H3 SoC along with I2C ports. > > Unfortunately, your patch cannot be applied in its current form, both > because of process and technical reasons: > > * Every commits should have a commit title and log. While you do > have a title, you used the log to store your cover letter. This is > an issue, because that will be kept in the git history, which is > obviously something we don't want. > If you want to make a cover letter, you can either send it as a > separate mail, or after the "---" below that will be ignored when > applying the mails. > On the other hand, the commit log should be used to say why ýour > doing this patch and why it was needed. > > * You do not have a Signed-off-by tag in your commit log. This and > the point above is documented in Documentation/SubmittingPatches, > please make sure to read that first. > > * Your mailer completely corrupted the patch when you sent it, > replacing all tabs by spaces, and wrapping the longer lines. That > means that the patch cannot be applied anymore. Please fix your > mailer, or use one that just works, like git send-email. > > * Finally, like Chen-Yu already told you, you're doing several > different things here in a single patch, while you should have > done separate patches. From what I can see, you're adding pinctrl > groups for the uart and i2c pins, and adding the i2c controller > nodes. That should have been ideally 3 patches: 1 for the uart > pinctrl groups, 1 for the i2c pinctrl groups, 1 for the i2c > controller nodes. We also don't take pinctrl groups that are not > enabled on any boards to keep the DT size as small as possible. > > Thanks, > Maxime > > -- > Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons > Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering > http://free-electrons.com Thanks for your help and make me understanding more the process. I've now prepared a new v3 for that, and just send it. Strangely, it seems that the 3 patches been sent separately. I will try to figure out what happened. Regards, Martin.