Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU dtc submodule

[Jeff Cody]

On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 11:21:18AM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 03:23:26PM +0100, Paul Burton wrote:
> > On Friday, 23 September 2016 09:13:51 BST Jeff Cody wrote:
> > > > Leon: Please give the git URL and branch that should be mirrored.  It
> > > > cannot be a tag since that is immutable.  Instead it should be the
> > > > dtc development/release tree that will be updated in the future.
> > > 
> > > Yes, once I get the git URL I'll update it on the server.  I presume it is
> > > 'master' on git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dtc/dtc.git, but I will 
> > > wait
> > > for confirmation before I do anything.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Jeff
> > 
> > Hi Jeff,
> > 
> > That would be the right branch for DTC, but sadly the master branch doesn't 
> > contain the 
> > actual commit that was tagged as the v1.4.2 release. v1.4.2 tags this 
> > commit:
> > 
> > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/dtc/dtc.git/commit/?
> > h=v1.4.2&id=ec02b34c05be04f249ffaaca4b666f5246877dea[1] 
> > 
> > Its parent commit is in the master branch, but it isn't. So simply 
> > mirroring the master 
> > branch wouldn't be enough, you'd need to include the v1.4.2 tag 
> > specifically. I've CC'd David 
> > Gibson who tagged DTC v1.4.2 in case he has input or can rectify this 
> > (which would 
> > probably be either a rebase & force push of the last 2 commits on the 
> > master branch atop 
> > v1.4.2, or a new release).
> 
> Oops.. that's my mistake (with my upstream dtc maintainer hat on).
> 
> Not sure quite how I managed that, but yes, master branches off just
> before the v1.4.2 release, instead of just after.  I've merged them
> back together now, so that master should include v1.4.2 now.
> 

Thanks,

I've updated the git server, and submitted a patch to move the QEMU dtc
submodule version to 1.4.2.

Thanks,
Jeff