[U-Boot] [PATCH 32/71] serial: powerpc: Implement CONFIG_SERIAL_MULTI into bmw serial driver

Scott Wood
2012-09-19T23:03:44Z

On 09/19/2012 05:57:56 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Dear Graeme Russ,
>
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Tom Rini <trini@ti.com> wrote:
> > > A more elaborate set of statements on my feelings about "old"
> boards
> > > and what needs to happen, in light of the facts that the code is
> > > messy, will require updating for DM and likelyhood of a small but
> > > devoted community around some of them.
> >
> > My gut feeling on this is to either move unmaintained / inactive
> > boards to a separate board directory
>
> And hoard crap? No, you can dig them from git history, the objects
> will still be
> there.
>
> > or add a flag to boards.cfg (If
> > we add a flag to boards.cfg then we can specify that MAKEALL should
> > skip those boards)
> >
> > Either way, we can then let them bit-rot
>
> I disagree
>
> > (I know, bad words) but at
> > least if someone comes along with an actual board, they have a place
> > to start.
>
> They can retrieve it from git history and re-add it in such unlikely
> case.
>
> > This is what happened to me with the x86 arch - the existing
> > code was horribly broken, but at least I had a solid foundation to
> > start reinvigorating it.
>
> It's still horribly broken, but that's partly because of x86 itself
> is a
> horribly broken CPU :-)

Maybe have a GRAVEYARD file that lists hardware support and other
notable features that have been removed, so it's easy for someone to
tell whether digging through the git history might be fruitful.

-Scott