[U-Boot] [RFC] Menu Frameworj

Wolfgang Denk
2009-06-14T10:44:18Z

Dear Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD,

In message <20090614102930.GA22102@game.jcrosoft.org> you wrote:
>
> > > why? They have no wish to come mainline.
> >
> > But you do.
> I do not as I'm not pay to merge them stuff

You want to get *your* code into mainline, and this will not happen
unless there is a good reason to accept your new, most likely
incompatible.

> > And I hereby state that I will not accept any new menu system code
> > into U-Boot mainline until it has been at least checked if there is a
> > way to unify this with the Openmoko approach.
> I'll not do it as Openmoko guys do not want to do the effort to come mainline
> I'm not pay to do this job. Feel free to ask them I'll not waste my time
> on this ask again

Frankly, that's a pretty stupid point of view. Closing one's eyes and
intentionally ignoring existing solutions is a waste of efforts.

It's not that you were helping "the Openmoko guys". It's about you
helping yourself to reduce the amount of work - short term (when it
comes to designing and implementing it - ok, this chance has already
been lost) and long term (whenit comes to maintaining it).

> > You prefer your own code, so please prove that it is so much better
> > than the Openmoko code. Otherwise your efforts would be better
> > invested in pulling their code into mainline, and extending / adap-
> > ting it such that it fits your purposes.
> I do think we need to not work this way if they want to come mainline THEY need to
> do this effort I will not do it for them

I don't care what Openmoko is doing. If my understanding is right,
they don't even use U-Boot any more - it was helpful for them during
development, but now they don't need and use it any more.

But I do care about code divergence, and I don't want to see thirty
implementations of the very same feature, all of them different in
mninor details. I cannot prevent that this happens in so many
out-of-tree prots, but I can try to prevent that it happens in
mainline.

My position is clear enough, I think.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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