Re: [edk2] History question about Base.h and its alternate parallel name space.... Should we change it?

2019-01-23 Thread Kinney, Michael D
Michael D > Cc: Felix Poludov ; edk2- > de...@lists.01.org > Subject: Re: [edk2] History question about Base.h and > its alternate parallel name space Should we change > it? > > > > > On Jan 22, 2019, at 9:49 AM, Kinney, Michael D > wrote: > > > > And

Re: [edk2] History question about Base.h and its alternate parallel name space.... Should we change it?

2019-01-22 Thread Andrew Fish via edk2-devel
>> UINT32 Data1; >> UINT16 Data2; >> UINT16 Data3; >> UINT8 Data4[8]; >> } GUID; >> >> Becomes: >> >> typedef struct { >> UINT32 Data1; >> UINT16 Data2; >> UINT16 Data3; >> UINT8 Data4[8]; >> }

Re: [edk2] History question about Base.h and its alternate parallel name space.... Should we change it?

2019-01-22 Thread Kinney, Michael D
> -Original Message- > From: af...@apple.com [mailto:af...@apple.com] > Sent: Friday, January 18, 2019 9:24 AM > To: Felix Poludov > Cc: Kinney, Michael D ; > edk2-devel@lists.01.org > Subject: Re: [edk2] History question about Base.h and > its alternate parallel name space..

Re: [edk2] History question about Base.h and its alternate parallel name space.... Should we change it?

2019-01-18 Thread Andrew Fish via edk2-devel
x Polyudov; 'Andrew Fish'; Kinney, Michael D > Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org > Subject: RE: [edk2] History question about Base.h and its alternate parallel > name space Should we change it? > > Felix, > > Is there a specific set that would have the most benefit? &g

Re: [edk2] History question about Base.h and its alternate parallel name space.... Should we change it?

2019-01-18 Thread Felix Polyudov
ubject: RE: [edk2] History question about Base.h and its alternate parallel name space.... Should we change it? Felix, Is there a specific set that would have the most benefit? Is EFI_GUID sufficient? Mike > -Original Message- > From: Felix Polyudov [mailto:fel...@ami.com] &

Re: [edk2] History question about Base.h and its alternate parallel name space.... Should we change it?

2019-01-17 Thread Kinney, Michael D
Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org > Subject: RE: [edk2] History question about Base.h and > its alternate parallel name space Should we change > it? > > I agree with Andrew. > In my opinion, moving alias types to Base.h will help to > overcome certain practical inconveniences withou

Re: [edk2] History question about Base.h and its alternate parallel name space.... Should we change it?

2019-01-16 Thread Felix Polyudov
Behalf Of Andrew Fish via edk2-devel Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 5:18 PM To: Mike Kinney Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org Subject: Re: [edk2] History question about Base.h and its alternate parallel name space Should we change it? > On Jan 16, 2019, at 1:19 PM, Kinney, Michael D >

Re: [edk2] History question about Base.h and its alternate parallel name space.... Should we change it?

2019-01-16 Thread Andrew Fish via edk2-devel
sts.01.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Fish via edk2- >> devel >> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 1:00 PM >> To: edk2-devel >> Subject: [edk2] History question about Base.h and its >> alternate parallel name space Should we change it? >> >> I had some one

Re: [edk2] History question about Base.h and its alternate parallel name space.... Should we change it?

2019-01-16 Thread Kinney, Michael D
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 1:00 PM > To: edk2-devel > Subject: [edk2] History question about Base.h and its > alternate parallel name space Should we change it? > > I had some one ask me recently why EFI_GUID does not > work with #include . I explained they needed

[edk2] History question about Base.h and its alternate parallel name space.... Should we change it?

2019-01-16 Thread Andrew Fish via edk2-devel
I had some one ask me recently why EFI_GUID does not work with #include . I explained they needed to use GUID vs. EFI_GUID. That prompted the question of why we have 2 names for the same thing. Well the historical answer was kind of political as some team wanted to use edk2, but not implemen