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From: Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] BOOT_DELAY broken
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 00:07:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160612220711.GA18902@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.20.1606121324330.17506@maverick.koi8.net>

On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 02:19:50PM -0700, Sergey Kubushyn wrote:
> OK, it is broken in last commit. Totally broken.
> 
> I can NOT get my custom board to stop at all. "CONFIG_BOOTDELAY=3" added
> to my board defconfig doesn't change anything. Even changing default to
> 3 from 0 in common/Kconfig doesn't help.
> 
> Putting "CONFIG_BOOTDELAY 3" in my board config in /include/configs
> makes gcc to output a whole lot of warning that it is redefined but it
> _DOES_ work.
> 
> I do NOT have time chasing this -- I'm in firefighting mode now with 14
> hours workdays because of this Tuesday deadline -- but guys, WTF!?

Hmm, using moving target for any deadline doesn't seem like briliant idea,
even for Tuesday one...

> I could understand somebody submitting such a stupid patch affecting
> _HUNDREDS_ of boards without thinking of consequences but why had it
> been accepted and applied to uboot-master right away? There are other
> things that are broken and won't compile but trivial one-line patches
> fixing that breakage are silently ignored but such a enormous screwup
> leaving holes all over is accepted right away without any checking...
> 
> Please do _NOT_ make such things any more. And if you do care please
> take my vehement NACK to this entire thing. I suggest it would be better
> to rollback that patch in its entirety -- there is too much work to fix
> the damage and there is absolutely no reason for this change at all in
> the first place.

...anyway, you still have two days left, so either rollback or read
"[PATCH v2 0/5] Urgent fixes for misconverted CONFIG_BOOTDELAY" and
following (it also contains rants, but a bit more constructive)

> Sorry for ranting but I simply could not stand it...

best regards,
	ladis (in hope you are feeling better now)

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-12 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-12 21:19 [U-Boot] BOOT_DELAY broken Sergey Kubushyn
2016-06-12 22:07 ` Ladislav Michl [this message]
2016-06-13  6:19 ` Wolfgang Denk

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