[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 3/7] common: Implement A/B metadata

[Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 05:30:30PM +0100, Eugeniu Rosca wrote:
> Hello Igor, All,
> 
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 05:39:36PM +0200, Igor Opaniuk wrote:
> > Hi Eugeniu,
> > 
> > On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 7:29 PM Eugeniu Rosca <roscaeugeniu@gmail.com> wrote:
> [..]
> > >
> > > The s/uint8_t/u8/ and s/uint32_t/u32/ conversion creates noise
> > > comparing the in-tree versus out-of-tree files and will add some
> > > overhead during integration. I still see a lot of U-Boot code saying
> > > uint8_t/uint32_t, so I wonder if these can be preserved. BTW, some of
> > > the patches from this series add code using uint32_t.
> > 
> > Agree.
> 
> Igor, many thanks for the recent replies.
> 
> WRT preserving the contents of the original bootloader_message.h from
> https://android.googlesource.com/platform/bootable/recovery.git/ , I
> wonder what's the chance of keeping the CPP comments in place when
> importing the file in-tree, since it will make the diffs and subsequent
> integration/updates easier from the source repository. Furthermore, we
> don't expect any U-Boot specific development to be done in this file
> in-tree. It should purely reflect the upstream state.
> 
> I wonder if there is any official position regarding that from the
> U-Boot maintainers?

Yes, for stuff that we're importing from another place, and really
really aren't touching otherwise, we should avoid changing it.

-- 
Tom
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