[riot-devel] Board stability

2020-09-30 Thread chrysn
Hello RIOT developers, changes like [13357], [15115] and [15122] prompted me to think about what promises a board's maintainers are making about stability. (That, as a side topic, touches on naming boards, but that's probably another can of worms). Applications that only use the high-level APIs w

Re: [riot-devel] Board stability

2020-10-01 Thread Michael Richardson
chrysn wrote: > Do we have any existing text on these kinds of stability? Do we want to? > If so, is that RDM material or really just a note to the board porting > documentation? Perhaps not everyone is aware of, has lived through with great frustration, the multiple times the "indic

Re: [riot-devel] Board stability

2020-10-01 Thread Marian Buschsieweke
Hi, I like the idea of alphanumeric identifiers. How about using `#define` or a `enum` that map a alphanumeric token to the RIOT internal numeric identifier? That way the strings come for free in terms of ROM usage. (But as a downside, those strings would be hard to e.g. reuse from within the shel