Hi,
I work for
Mellanox, and we've created several patches to the Infiniband dissector in
Wireshark which I'd like to submit for inclusion in the mainline. Are there some
specific steps I need to follow when submitting patches on behalf of a company,
or do I just attach them to a bug report as usual?
No special
procedure.
Also, the
changes include some bugfixes and several feature additions. Currently I have
each fix/feature as a separate patch. Should I open a separate bug for each of
these, attach them all to the same bug report, or combine them and submit the
changes as one big patch file?
I'd prefere a single bug report or perhaps
one with bugfixes and one with features.
Bugfixes could be nice to separate out as
they could then be backported to the stable
version.
Small patch files are easier to
review and can be accepted/rejected on a file per file
basis on the other hand applying a single
file
is easier. So the answer is - it depends
:-)
( complexity, number of code lines
changed, number of patches...)
Thanks,
Slava.
