From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Frysinger Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:24:23 -0500 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 27/27] remove bi_enet*addr from global data for all arches In-Reply-To: <20090216194900.ca284a3f.kim.phillips@freescale.com> References: <1234596190-524-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> <200902161918.21292.vapier@gentoo.org> <20090216194900.ca284a3f.kim.phillips@freescale.com> Message-ID: <200902162224.24752.vapier@gentoo.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Monday 16 February 2009 20:49:00 Kim Phillips wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > renamed, things will appear to "just work". so there is no way for them > > to know that they need to fix their code which means they wont. > > otherwise, people hitting a build failure will know immediately that they > > need to update something. > > there's also #warning for this type of situation, but I agree with > adding glaring comments in the code. #warning's wont help as there's no way to take it onto a member of a struct (unless there's something i'm not aware of), plus the common ppc code explicitly set it all the time and we dont want to have that trigger a warning -mike