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: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 08:55:03 -0500 Message-ID: <54524337.8050608@ti.com> 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> <20141029214541.GA21790@kahuna> <20141029223104.GA23366@drone.musicnaut.iki.fi> Reply-To: nm@ti.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-oi0-f46.google.com ([209.85.218.46]:45400 "EHLO mail-oi0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750914AbaJ3NzG (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2014 09:55:06 -0400 Received: by mail-oi0-f46.google.com with SMTP id g201so4011870oib.33 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 06:55:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20141029223104.GA23366@drone.musicnaut.iki.fi> Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Aaro Koskinen Cc: Tony Lindgren , Sebastian Reichel , linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org On 10/29/2014 05:31 PM, Aaro Koskinen wrote: > Also, you cannot expect all kernel users to know what you have been > talking about. E.g. OMAP DMA API deprecation may have been discussed > before, but I only learned it after the WARN appeared in the kernel tree. > So you should start counting from that. > > Personally I don't mind if you delete OMAP3 legacy boot support already > tomorrow morning, but if you want to give ~1 year transition period it > should end somewhere in the end of 2015. Of course if there are no legacy > boot users you can do it faster. How about the following? > > + WARN(!of_have_populated_dt(), > + "legacy booting deprecated(proposed removal in December 2015), please update to boot with .dts\n"); > + Regards, Nishanth Menon