I don't understand why you are so angry... There is no simple implementation of code reuse within the boards. You know the code much better than I do. Please free to drop this implementation.
Alon. On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Detlev Zundel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alon, > >> It was not my intention to add publicity my name, but provide >> a solution for users, as it took a lot of work to make it >> work without many changes from other implementation. > > Adding someones name to code that one has written is primarily not for > publicity reasons but for somple tracking reasons. Who do you think > people will turn to if they see problems in the code? What would you > say if someone mailed you about a problem in "your" code which you have > never seen before? > >> Any way to do it using a reuse would be super, although >> this is not the only duplication in u-boot board tree... > > Yes, and maybe you realize how *damn* (sorry) some of us work to > eliminate this. I never tire of stating that the cost of fixing a > problem in software is exponential to the time of its discovery. > > Translated into U-Boot context this means, that we do *not* allow simple > code duplication. If such a case slips through the review process, this > is nowhere near a reason to allow it the next time. > > So please, reconsider adding to the mess instead of decreasing it or > even keeping the mess-level constant ;) > > Cheers > Detlev > > -- > The 82558 B-step and later generation devices do not maintain a link > in D3 if PME is disabled or if the device does not have power. > -- Intel documentation > -- > DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel > HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany > Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-40 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] > _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
