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[Bug 1001550] STM32 F2 and STM3220G-EVAL / STM3240G-EVAL contribution from eCosCentric


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--- Comment #20 from Ilija Kocho <ilijak@siva.com.mk> 2012-04-05 09:35:37 BST ---
(In reply to comment #12)
> (In reply to comment #9)

[snip]

> > * The "set_value" keyword in ecos.db was introduced as a quick hack for use
> > within the Red Hat test farm and was never intended to be used elsewhere.
> > set_value will provide a user_value for the specified CDL item which can
> > therefore be inadvertently changed using the "restore defaults" action in
> > configtool. I would really like to consider the use of "set_value" to be
> > deprecated. It should always be possible to use a separate tiny CDL-only
> > package to achieve the same effect. Are you OK with this?
> 
> Not really, no. Firstly, other targets use it. Secondly, the design intention
> for CDL is that targets should be defined by platform packages, albeit with
> "requires" rather than "set_value". As such this is much closer to the way
> things are intended to be. Yes it originated as a solution to a specific
> problem, but then so is ecos.db, which shouldn't exist at all. What we can do
> at the moment is make the transition to a future improved world easier, so that
> makes this approach better.

Why isn't this available in CDL? I always wanted some kind of soft "requires",
that will set/change default value but not hinder user override. My proposed
name was supposed to be "recommends" but "set_value" is perhaps better. 

Ilija

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