[ELDK] [PATCH v2 1/2] META-ELDK: u-boot-mkimage: unbreak U-Boot tools build

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Gerhard,

In message <20140422174534.GY3528 at book.gsilab.sittig.org> you wrote:
>
> > Please capitalize, yes, there's a strong policy when communicating with other 
> > people ;-)
> 
> Such a policy appears to strongly depend on individual projects,
> as people's perception is not universally identical.  Speaking

There are some genral netiquette rules, though.  See for example [1];
I really recommend to follow that advice.

[1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#writewell

> I always assumed that there is a difference between documentation
> and "non-documentation" (source code comments, commit messages),
> where the latter are not prose and don't pretend to be.

I can't parse that.  What makes you think that comments in the source
code or commit messages are NOT documentation as well? Actually this
is extremely important documentation (and often the only one that
there is), so it deserves all case to be done well.

> But now that I learned that this is the policy in Yocto and thus
> in ELDK, there's no problem following it.  Just did not know yet.

Please drop the idea that this is something that would be project
specific.  Even if you find examples where other people write sloppy
text and get through with it, you should not look at such bad
examples.  Please always try to write clear and precise text.
The people who invest time to read what you wrote deserve that much.

Thanks.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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