[U-Boot] Build breakage due to "Standalone Apps: Standalone apps should only need exports.h"

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Wednesday 07 December 2011 14:56:30 Mike Partington wrote:
> As I understand it, one of the main purposes of standalone applications is
> to enable proprietary code to be run with U-Boot.  In order to realize this
> objective, however, the code cannot be forced to include anything that is
> GPL-encumbered.  Note that spi.h does not meet this criteria.  So, either
> spi.h needs to be changed, or the spi interfaces need to be added to
> exports.h in a way that does not require any additional typedefs or
> structures from other files.  I'm not sure which path is best, but my
> preference would be to keep the interface between standalone applications
> and U-Boot as clean and well-defined as possible.  To me this means as few
> files as possible.

in general, i don't think your statement here is correct.  the U-Boot license 
explicitly provides an exception for using the exported API.

also, please don't top post
-mike
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