In message m2br3klrc8.fsf_-_@sowhat.denx.de you wrote:
To be honest, I share your point of view in this respect but to convince Wolfgang, more of the maintainers have to speak up.
And users, please!
In private communications it turns out that Wolfgang weighs in years of experience added to the technical question so the board maintainers have to come up with sufficient proof that this really is a point where a consensus has to be reached.
It's not only board maintainers. Actually I don't care about maintainers :-) They usually understand the code and know what they are doing, and why, and why things work as they do.
I also try to care about stupid users, who often don;t even bother to use the help function of a command, not to mention reading the FAQ or even the whole manual.
The maintainer is just one person, but his board configuration may be a pain for many, many users - most of them unheard. Well, a few of send "bug reports" to me. Maybe more than a few :-(
This is actually a very strong point - Wolfgang speculates that most of the board ports will only make use of the "standard" behaviour of the flash driver so that in the end he ends up with a broad range of systems working alike. If many porters are going to deviate from this standard then the situation changes fundamentally and it then would make sense to adapt a different policy so that more boards work alike.
Right. "Default" should be what is being used by the overwhelming majority of the users (read: *users*, not maintainers).
So in the end it is a question of what the board maintainers will choose - if many deviate by including board specific code then
No, it's what users want. The maintainer shall be just a servant of his users. Amen.
Wolfgang will surely reconsider his position. If not too many people
I do. Even if I seem to stand like a rock I listen to what the water is doing to my ankles :-)
And by the way - don't forget to consider the "user" of U-Boot also. Sometimes things being pleasant for U-Boot porters make life unneccessary hard for them.
Indeed.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk