From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nishanth Menon Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: OMAP2+: Warn about deprecated legacy booting mode Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 16:45:41 -0500 Message-ID: <20141029214541.GA21790@kahuna> References: <20141027200008.GR2560@atomide.com> <20141027230138.GB7805@drone.musicnaut.iki.fi> <20141028221243.GU2542@atomide.com> <5450EEE7.8070801@ti.com> <20141029185957.GA3723@earth.universe> <20141029193915.GB2542@atomide.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Return-path: Received: from arroyo.ext.ti.com ([192.94.94.40]:38169 "EHLO arroyo.ext.ti.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755312AbaJ2VqS (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:46:18 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20141029193915.GB2542@atomide.com> Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Tony Lindgren Cc: Sebastian Reichel , Aaro Koskinen , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org On 12:39-20141029, Tony Lindgren wrote: > * Sebastian Reichel [141029 12:01]: > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 08:43:03AM -0500, Nishanth Menon wrote: > > > On 10/28/2014 05:12 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > > > * Aaro Koskinen [141027 16:03]: > > > >> Hi, > > > >> > > > >> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 01:00:09PM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > > >>> + > > > >>> + if (!of_have_populated_dt()) > > > >>> + pr_warn("WARNING: legacy booting deprecated, please update to boot with .dts\n"); > > > >>> + > > > >> > > > >> Maybe use WARN so that the warning is more verbose and kernel gets tainted? > > > > > > > > Well I was hoping to avoid annoying people with the trace. > > > > But can do that if people prefer that, what do others think? > > > > > > > > > > WARN is better and eye catchy. Also, could we add information on when > > > the support will be removed since we call it deprecated? > > Well quoting the hostage situation from a Mr. Show episode > "Now Who Wants Ice Cream?" the answer to that would be: > > OK, you want me to guess? A hundred million days, or maybe ten more > minutes, somewhere in there, I just can't say, don't know. How about ~1 year? We have been talking about dt only boot for over an year already... Can we say 3.22 kernel, platforms that are not converted to device tree only loose legacy boot support. -- Regards, Nishanth Menon