On 16/2/20 6:19 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote: > On 16/02/2020 00:30, Chris Johns wrote: >> On 2020-02-15 03:02, Sebastian Huber wrote: >>> This improves API backward compatibility of RTEMS 5.1 to previous >>> versions. >> >> What is the purpose of this change? How does a user wanting backward >> compatibility use this change? > There may be applications which used > rtems_configuration_get_rtems_api_configuration() for diagnostic purposes. >> >> How long do we maintain this interface? > As long as we have a Classic API. >> >> We clearly document users should not create configuration tables and you are >> working to provide solid interfaces yet we have an interface for backwards >> compatibility. > We have two interfaces, one that creates the configuration, the documented > interface for this is <rtems/confdefs.h> and the configure option. The second > interface is there to query the configuration. This is done through the > rtems_configuration_*() macros/functions. This patch restores backward > compatibility for the configuration query API. >> >> Why in this specific case do we have to do this? Is there an app or user in >> mind that needs this? > No, I just thought it is a good idea to keep the configuration query API > intact.
I agree. I did not pick up this change is about the query. Thanks Chris _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@rtems.org http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
