On Tuesday 28 April 2009 06:08:06 Ladislav Michl wrote:
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 03:28:28PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
if you want your points to have any meaning/usage, then they have to be on the mailing list. irc is useless for people trying to search for background information to a problem.
I agree here, but I already gave up. And if "the real world timer verification" is now mandatory, I'll do it, as it will lead to the effect faster. The only thing I have to do is wait for a scope. I already run out of time I was supposed to spend with U-Boot, so everything I'm doing eats my spare time (sure, not an excuse ;-))
nothing has been mandated. we're simply a bunch of devs throwing around random ideas to try and make u-boot more resilient to free flowing changes that git development enables. a method to quickly validate user contributions is great as we can then say "you have to verify your change against the XXX test".
To repeat it briefly. When dealing with 32bit underflow free running counter mathematical proof precission is sufficient as everyone can verify its correctness. Measurement in contrast needs either believe to device operator or independent verification and after that, custodian is supposed to decide whom to believe. In that case the most reliable way is to repeat measurement himself. So this method really doesn't improve situation a lot and does not take into account corner cases I described earlier.
i too would prefer a POST case that can be classified as a mathematically sound proof. did i miss something, or was such a case proposed ?
as it stands, your e-mail simply reads as "i agree with what Jean-Christophe said".
Or more likely "I agree with what Wolfgang said" ;-)
well i'm glad you clarified because i missed the point of your e-mail -mike