From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3652 invoked by alias); 5 Apr 2012 20:34:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 3638 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Apr 2012 20:34:01 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from virtual.bogons.net (HELO virtual.bogons.net) (193.178.223.136) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:33:48 +0000 Received: from jifvik.dyndns.org (jifvik.dyndns.org [85.158.45.40]) by virtual.bogons.net (8.10.2+Sun/8.11.2) with ESMTP id q35KXk102428; Thu, 5 Apr 2012 21:33:46 +0100 (BST) Received: from shurg.barn.ecoscentric.com (unknown [87.127.120.188]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by jifvik.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E853D3FE1; Thu, 5 Apr 2012 21:33:45 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4F7E01A9.8000602@jifvik.org> Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:34:00 -0000 From: Jonathan Larmour User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111108 Fedora/3.1.16-1.fc14 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Dallaway Cc: eCos development list Subject: Re: CDL usage and improvements References: <4F7DEEDC.8070704@dallaway.org.uk> <4F7DFFC8.8010209@jifvik.org> In-Reply-To: <4F7DFFC8.8010209@jifvik.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Mailing-List: contact ecos-devel-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-devel-owner@ecos.sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-04/txt/msg00004.txt.bz2 On 05/04/12 21:25, Jonathan Larmour wrote: > On 05/04/12 20:13, John Dallaway wrote: >> Given that the design intention is to use platform packages to define >> targets, I don't understand why you would regard using a "set_value" >> command (located outside the HAL package hierarchy) as being closer to >> how things are supposed to be. > > Because the setting of options is associated with the target entry, which > comes from the platform HAL package. To be clear, I mean which _will_ come from the platform HAL package. One thing the design did not include was extra little HAL packages whose only raison d'être is to set a config option. Jifl --["No sense being pessimistic, it wouldn't work anyway"]-- Opinions==mine