From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20713 invoked by alias); 4 Aug 2003 14:36:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 20694 invoked from network); 4 Aug 2003 14:36:51 -0000 Message-ID: <3F2E6F81.2030104@eCosCentric.com> Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 14:36:00 -0000 From: Jonathan Larmour User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Lunn Cc: eCos Maintainers Subject: Re: FWD: Proposal: Keep codes compact with multiple interfaces References: <20030804095633.GD1771@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch> In-Reply-To: <20030804095633.GD1771@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-08/txt/msg00012.txt.bz2 Andrew Lunn wrote: > Hi Maintainers. > > What's your opinion on this? > > I've played with the patch a little and it builds OK with a few > different configurations and seems to work OK. > > One side of the argument is "If its not broken don't fix it". For one > ethernet device it probably takes a little bit more memory. > > The other side of the argument is, its more readable so more > maintainable. For multiple devices it probably takes a little less > memory. Lost in the noise of the rest of the net stack I would say. You might want to tell him some comments wouldn't go amiss tho ;). Jifl -- eCosCentric http://www.eCosCentric.com/ The eCos and RedBoot experts --[ "You can complain because roses have thorns, or you ]-- --[ can rejoice because thorns have roses." -Lincoln ]-- Opinions==mine