[Buildroot] [PATCH 00/16 v3] br2-external: support multiple trees at once (branch yem/multi-br2-external-ID-7)

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Aug 31 07:14:43 UTC 2016


Hello,

On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 08:15:57 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

>  >  Supporting the old single-external without name in parallel with the new named
>  > approach takes a significant amount of code - I estimate about 40 lines, out of
>  > 285 lines affected by this patch set...  
> 
>  >  So, I repeat: I think the backward compatibility should be dropped here.  
> 
> That also sounds sensible to me.

I originally insisted to keep the backward compatibility, but Arnout's
argumentation convinced me that it is not really necessary. And if it
can help reduce the implementation complexity, I'm all for it.

So: I'm fine with dropping backward compatibility on this.

Thomas
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