On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 01:32:39PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > Denys Dmytriyenko wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 07:58:39AM +0200, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: >>> 2010/9/7 Maupin, Chase <[email protected]>: >>> >>>>> Forgot about this, but a variable should go with documentation. >>>>> This already has been raised with the orginal patch, but was ignored >>>>> by the submitters. >>>> Frans, Are you counting me as one of the original submitters? I mainly >>>> use the SOC_FAMILY, I didn't create it. That being said, if you have a >>>> recommended section of the usermanual that this should be documented in >>>> I'll try to add something. >>> Hi Chase, >>> I see you indeed as the submitter. The commit carries your name and >>> there is no reference in the commit message of another author. >>> >>> Wrt the manual: actually I thought we had a section for this, but as >>> it stands i cannot find it. Guess I saw it somewhere else. >>> I'm not really sure where it would fit. I guess there are others who >>> have a better view on the manual and its structure. >> Frans, >> I guess then you haven't read the original discussion closely enough. >> Chase only made a change to add existing SOC_FAMILY override into >> COMPATIBLE_MACHINE variable... I keep repeating myself - SOC_FAMILY >> feature is about a year old. It was introduced as part of a large merge >> from Arago. Here is the original commit and some description: >> http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/commit/?id=b788499815bfc1974d4277c0a261b9a7c24aa816 > > I suppose you could save Chase some time, Denys, and update the manual > instead :) But to me, it's perfectly reasonable for Frans to ask that when > someone renames a not previously documented variable to go ahead and > document it too (since they must have some knowledge of how it works, and > some correct knowledge being written down is better than none).
Thanks, Tom! Yes, pushing Chase's patch for documentation update is on my TODO list for later today - I'm giving people last chance to comment... I agree, updating documentation is very desirable, no objections here. I was merely commenting on Frans' note here, giving some background: >>> Hi Chase, >>> I see you indeed as the submitter. The commit carries your name and >>> there is no reference in the commit message of another author. -- Denys _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
