On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Myles Watson<[email protected]> wrote: > >> the whole uses thing was something that seemed a good idea at the >> time. I've come to the conclusion that it is likely a bad idea. Maybe >> we want a patch that just eliminates the need for uses. > > Since I wasn't around for the discussion, could you help me understand why > it was a good idea at the time?
in v1 we had a huge number of overlapping, identical options because it was so easy to just define and use one. It was a mess. We decided to shoot for a bit more discipline in v2. We overshot the mark. ron -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
