Re: [PATCH 0/2] ARM: Unify setup for Marvell SheevaPlugs and SeagateDockStars

From: Alexander Holler
Date: Thu Apr 07 2011 - 23:39:16 EST


Am 07.04.2011 19:39, schrieb Russell King - ARM Linux:

We have an established API and convention in the kernel which you claim
is "from outerspace". It's not "from outerspace" but a designed API to
allow platforms to live together in the same kernel image. So I find
your arguments totally unreasonable.

I've claimed that the specific machine ID is from outerspace not the API. This one (ID) got invented just because of a different usage of two GPIOs (and not even by the manufacturerer). And I still think using the (fixed) memory size here is totally reasonable. There is nothing else to differentiate these HWs, it's extremely unlikely that this difference will get proved wrong, and if that would really happen, than one could still add some code to fix this specific problem. _Always_ dealing with "what happens when" is (imho) fruitless and no solution or API can deal with everything.

I fully support Nicolas in rejecting your patches outright on this point
alone.

Which I fully understand. And I wouldn't have started to defend me, if that would have happened in a more civil language.

But because I don't want to get involved in more discussions with people who are missing the needed manners (at least how I learned them) to talk with other people without offending them (not you), I better try to stay away posting patches.

Maybe I'm getting too old and lacking the needed enthusiasm needed to discuss such stuff (and with everyone who thinks he must enter this discussion too, again, not you). ;)

I wish you all a nice day,

Alexander
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