Hi Mike,
[...]
> not really. i consider this to be "garbage-in garbage-out". imo,
> u-boot isnt a C library that should be padded with garbage checking
> all over. the result only helps broken systems (edge cases) while
> hindering the rest.
>
> i wouldnt have a problem with adopting an NDEBUG system, or perhaps
> adding assert()'s to this code. then people can easily opt-out of it
> all and for the people doing development, can easily turn things on.
> assert(name != NULL);
While developing, I certainly appreciate 'garbage-in error-out' and as
your approach allows this, I believe we have reached a consensus.
> the current miiphy system needs to be replaced (this runtime string
> based approach is crazy), but that's a completely different topic :).
I'm looking forward to your changes :)
Thanks!
Detlev
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