[U-Boot-Users] Re: Request to mailing list U-Boot-Users rejected

[U-Boot-Users] Re: Request to mailing list U-Boot-Users rejected

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <20060517155511.GQ7487@enneenne.com> you wrote:
> 
> My idea is:
> 
> * First you should fix the au1x00 support with my patch.

Which increases  the  mess  by  adding  yet  another  set  of  mostly
duplicated files...

> * Then I'm going to move files ?./cpu/mpc5xxx/usb_ohci.h?,
> ?./cpu/mips/au1x00_usb_ohci.h? (which are the same file) and the other
> '*ohci.h' files into ?include/usb_ohci.h?.
> 
> * Then I'm going to move file ?cpu/mips/au1x00_usb_ohci.c? into
> ?common/usb_ohci.c? modifing the functions ?usb_lowlevel_init()? and
> ?usb_lowlevel_stop()? according to the different platforms.

... before you start to clean it up?

> Please, let me know if these steps look sane to you. :)

I would expect that first cleaning up the code, and then adding a new
board to the cleaned up version is simpler and easier to understand?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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