Re: [edk2] Breaking change issue with NetworkPkg/Ip6Dxe/Ip6ConfigImlp.[c, h]

2016-08-05 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 08/05/16 18:12, Cohen, Eugene wrote: > We've been hit by this same kind of issue and it's really painful, especially > as it affects shipping systems. > > Long term I think we need an extensible/revisioned data format so we can get > forwards and backwards compatibility between NVRAM data

Re: [edk2] Breaking change issue with NetworkPkg/Ip6Dxe/Ip6ConfigImlp.[c, h]

2016-08-05 Thread Cohen, Eugene
: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-boun...@lists.01.org] On Behalf Of > Larry Cleeton > Sent: Friday, August 05, 2016 9:35 AM > To: Ye, Ting <ting...@intel.com>; edk2-devel@lists.01.org > Subject: Re: [edk2] Breaking change issue with > NetworkPkg/Ip6Dxe/Ip6ConfigImlp.[c, h] >

Re: [edk2] Breaking change issue with NetworkPkg/Ip6Dxe/Ip6ConfigImlp.[c, h]

2016-08-05 Thread Larry Cleeton
I agree with your assessment about leaving the data structure as it is. I just wanted to highlight it as it may impact others. The bottom line is my development group is entirely responsible for vetting any changes coming from the EDK2 into our product. This one slipped by us. --Larry