From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Rini Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 15:01:30 -0400 Subject: [U-Boot] Start the deprecation process for generic board In-Reply-To: References: <1395530091-20056-1-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org> <20140328211642.GH16360@bill-the-cat> <201404031903.52872.marex@denx.de> Message-ID: <20140403190130.GK16360@bill-the-cat> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 11:35:10AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote: > Hi Marek, > > On 3 April 2014 11:03, Marek Vasut wrote: > > > On Friday, March 28, 2014 at 10:16:42 PM, Tom Rini wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 05:14:51PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote: > > > > We should move forward to remove the old board init code. Add a > > > > prominent message to encourage maintainers to get started on this > > > > work. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Simon Glass > > > > > > Applied to u-boot/master, thanks! > > > > It's now -rc3 , MW is long closed and my board start generating a warning. > > Even > > worse, all boards now generate this warning and I'm worried that this will > > cause > > the more attentive maintainers to take action and produce fast fixes which > > won't > > receive sufficient testing until release is out. > > > > I seriously disagree with applying the patch for current release. > > > > Despite the fact that it has been ~1 year and not a lot of people have > taken action, I didn't actually expect it to go in right away, and I'm fine > with a revert for this release if that's what Tom decides. But let's get it > moving ASAP. > > Also let me know if there are any questions about how to test. I wrote up a > README in the patch, but am happy to expand it as things come up. So, Marek and I were discussing this on IRC as well. Given about a year and nothing converted (except for new things) I opted for the noisier approach. It really is a simple switch and for the record, if distro people would be so kind as to switch it on and report back that nothing happens, that'd be really helpful too. -- Tom -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: