Re: 答复: [PATCH]new driver for siliconmotion

[Matt Turner]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Aaron.Chen  陈俊杰
<aaron.chen at siliconmotion.com> wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> Thank you for your review. We really appreciate that you've pick out so many issues we need to improve. It seems that we still have a lot of work to do to match the quality which can be accepted by X.Org. We will fix the issue you've reported before next submission.
> One more question: How many patches shall I make instead of one big patch?
>
> Aaron

I'm traveling today, but in general patches should do one thing and
one thing only. For example, a patch to add support for a new video
chipset, to fix a bug, or add RANDR support. I can't guess how many
patches your work would have made.

This is obviously difficult since your work has been done separately
from the xf86-video-siliconmotion driver for a few years. If you have
version control history, it may be easier to split this up into
smaller patches, but what I might suggest (since this is in essence a
totally new driver) is to make a v4 branch that contains your new
driver. We can fix it up from there and do a release for testing while
still letting the existing v1.7.x driver live on the master branch. Or
perhaps we could switch the branches around -- I'm not sure.

I'd like to hear how some other X developers would handle this situation.

Thanks,
Matt