Dear Mike Frysinger, In message <200902161618.16726.vap...@gentoo.org> you wrote: > > > And even renaming is BAD as it breaks compatibility with the Linux > > kernel. It's bad enough that we have a binary data structure as a > > critical interface, but suing different variable names for the same > > fields would make it definitely worse. > > that doesnt make any sense at all. the kernel isnt passed the structure as > seen in the C language, it gets passed a binary blob. how the kernel chooses > to interpret it is up to the kernel.
And how do you check for problems? At least initially by comparing the source code. Why making this more difficult than necessary? > > Please leave that structure untouched. > > > > This is my final statement on this issue. > > you'd think the maintainer would be more open to talking about issues instead > of closing their mind and ignoring improvements We have discussed this here for some time now, and I considered the pros and cons and made up my mind. YMMV. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de God is real, unless declared integer. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
