Hi Bas,
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:52:30 +0200, Detlev Zundel dzu@denx.de wrote:
In the past this turned out not to be as easy as it sounds. The devil lurks in the details which become apparent only when starting on the job. But of course if somebody accomplishes this, I cannot imagine anyone from stopping him :)
Well, I vaguely recall a recent discussion here where a lot of changes to imported code were requested just to fulfil the U-boot code guidelines. That will not help particularly when the code needs to be synced again with the origin.
For code that we import en-bloc, we explicitely make expections to U-Boot rules[1]:
Source files originating from different projects (for example the MTD subsystem or the hush shell code from the BusyBox project) may, after careful consideration, be exempted from these rules. For such files, the original coding style may be kept to ease subsequent migration to newer versions of those sources.
And yes, nobody said it was easy :-)
Well, at least I thought it at one moment in the past :)
Cheers Detlev
[1] http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/CodingStyle