On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 8:41 PM Gregor Riepl <onitake@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> And the kind of refactoring of next_arg() you are asking for here > >> is way out of scope, > > > > Of course, of course, but why introduce Yet Another Parser to begin with? > > > >> so sorry but I don't plan to change this part > >> of the patch. > > > > This is not good. > > But I have no power to stop it, while being very sad about this attitude. > > Andy, I do agree with you, but what would you suggest we can do about the situation? Ask for more help. See below as well. > Write a generic parser that everyone should use from now on, and then migrate all usage to this parser? Yeah, that's, if you noticed, what I'm doing (see Git history of lib/*cmdline*, for example and gpio-aggregator.c) and _that's_ why I'm not happy about the situation. What I'm trying to say is that we need to change people's mind about double efforts and duplication. -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko