[U-Boot-Users] Enforcement of coding standards

[Jerry Van Baren]

The technical term for this is "bit-rot" and it is an immutable law of 
software, a manifestation of entropy ;-).

gvb


At 10:06 AM 3/7/2003 -0500, r.schwebel at pengutronix.de wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:58:31AM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > But then - look at the MAINTAINERS file for the long list of orphaned
> > boards. What do we do with those?
>
>Hmm, if nobody maintains a port any more he cannot hope that it will
>work on forever. From time to time this has to be checked. Surely,
>nobody will break other people's boards by intention, but on the other
>hand nobody can expect that changes don't affect a board over a longer
>development time, especially when large changes like the u-boot merge
>are done.
>
>Robert
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