Dear Kim,
in message 20070806190637.e284487e.kim.phillips@freescale.com you wrote:
..by placing board entries one per line, as suggested by jdl.
I understand the intention, but at least for me it is pretty counterproductive. I introduced the block formatting some years ago when the number of boards grew, and the file grew too long.
For example, have a look at the 8xx boards. Here is the old version:
-LIST_8xx=" \
- Adder87x GENIETV MBX860T R360MPI \
- AdderII GTH MHPC RBC823 \
- ADS860 hermes MPC86xADS rmu \
- AMX860 IAD210 MPC885ADS RPXClassic \
- c2mon ICU862_100MHz MVS1 RPXlite \
- CCM IP860 NETPHONE RPXlite_DW \
- cogent_mpc8xx IVML24 NETTA RRvision \
- ELPT860 IVML24_128 NETTA2 SM850 \
- EP88x IVML24_256 NETTA_ISDN spc1920 \
- ESTEEM192E IVMS8 NETVIA SPD823TS \
- ETX094 IVMS8_128 NETVIA_V2 svm_sc8xx \
- FADS823 IVMS8_256 NX823 SXNI855T \
- FADS850SAR KUP4K pcu_e TOP860 \
- FADS860T KUP4X QS823 TQM823L \
- FLAGADM LANTEC QS850 TQM823L_LCD \
- FPS850L lwmon QS860T TQM850L \
- GEN860T MBX quantum TQM855L \
- GEN860T_SC TQM860L \
TQM885D \uc100 \v37 \
This fits easily all on a single screen.
Now your list version is about 4 times as long, and needs more than 2 pages on the (pretty big) window size I'm using. That's much harder to read.
As for the merge conflict problem: yes, this happens occasionally, but not very frequently, and this type of merge conflicts are easy to resolve.
I would like to keep the current formatting.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk