[PATCH] Generate param_functions.c and associated files from XML documentation

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 00:50 +0100, Michael Adam wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> On 2014-02-12 at 10:20 +1300, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > 
> > This is the current patch series for the loadparm work Garming and I
> > have done.  I'm sorry to have to note that it has now been 4 weeks since
> > this was first posted on 14 Jan.  
> 
> Yeah, sorry, but big patchsets take time, and
> there are subtleties hidden here that did not advise
> rushing this in...
> 
> I have reviewed the patches and added reviewed-by-/me tags to
> most of them in my master-param branch.

Thanks.  I've pushed that to autobuild!

> There are two questions/remarks:
> 
> 1) I think we need to special case 0 for smb2 max credits
>    as a protection:  if we leave the value at 0,
>    we do "... % 0" in the code using this...
> 
>    So the patch as such is not acceptable.
> 
> 2) could we split the patch
>    "lib/param: Deprecate and normalise "read raw" and "write raw"
>    parameters"?
> 
>    we should not do normalization and deprecation in one patch,
>    imho.
> 
>    Also: why do you deprecate them at all?
>    If you remove the deprecation (doc change)
>    and only do the normalization for a start,
>    you have my reviewed-by for it.
> 
> So skipping the max credits patch for a start
> and skipping the deprecation for the read/write raw
> patch, feel free to push w/ my review.

Thank you very much for your time and patience with this massive patch
set.  These last two issues can indeed be separated, and I'll gladly
discuss them in their own thread.  I certainly hadn't appreciated the
full implications of the smb2_max_credits change (has that changed
recently?).

Thanks!

Andrew Bartlett

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