Hi,

Well, as the general comment states "the code is very hard to read". I can't 
really comment beyond that.
If the code is reasonably written and understandable and adheres to the coding 
guidelines found in README.developer it shouldn't be a big problem getting it 
in.

Thanx,
Jaap

John R. Hogerhuis wrote:
> Jaap Keuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
>> Hi John,
>>
>> I've been looking at this submission from the start, and frankly I don't 
>> like 
>> it. It is like Ronnie says in 
>> http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1957#c4, this code is 
>> very 
>> hard to read, let alone maintain.
>> I don't want to sign off on that and burden myself and other with the 
>> maintenance chores. So I left it alone for another core developer to 
>> eventually pick it up. It seems none is confident enough to commit it.
>>
> 
> Well that's a clear statement of the problem, thanks for the reply.
> 
> It appears Matt is responding favorably to requests to make specific
> improvements. General criticisms about hard to read/maintain and how he has
> abstracted the message parsing are obviously harder to address. My 
> understanding
> is that parts of the code are generated based on XML descriptors of the binary
> protocol available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/llrp-toolkit (I am a
> developer for this project but not the LLRP dissector).
> 
> If the code could be simplified to avoid wrappers are there other issues for 
> you
> or Ronnie that would stand in the way of commit?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- John.

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