From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Heiko Schocher Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 13:50:07 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] livetime of boards In-Reply-To: <20131107121241.C93953811DF@gemini.denx.de> References: <5278ED18.3050105@denx.de> <20131105203736.GM5925@bill-the-cat> <20131106075049.57EB63814E8@gemini.denx.de> <527B4C80.1090704@denx.de> <527B5F54.4080501@gmail.com> <527B6DCC.80605@denx.de> <527B7883.1080302@gmail.com> <527B7EE6.4030307@denx.de> <20131107121241.C93953811DF@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: <527B8C7F.6060503@denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hello Wolfgang, Am 07.11.2013 13:12, schrieb Wolfgang Denk: > Dear Heiko, > > In message<527B7EE6.4030307@denx.de> you wrote: >> >> Hmm... I hope we get a lot of such EMails ... and think, this is not >> a big problem ... Or, maybe, if we get a lot of such EMails, maybe we >> open a u-boot-testing list? > > NAK. Mailing lists are good for some kind of information - especially > for such information that is read by humans. > > All you want to do here is feed a database with data. This is not > what mailing lists were made for, so we should really use a more > appropriate interface. Ok. But this status report can be in readable text format ;-) >> See my proposal for the livetime counter: >> >> livetime init value n (n=4) >> livetimer decrement on every new release >> livetimer set to n, if in release cycle comes a test report >> livetimer == 0 -> EMail to board maintainer, board reached end of live in >> mainline, please send test report. >> livetimer == -1 -> board get deleted > > This is too simple in one respect (as you are not including > information that may be vital, like which exact commit ID has been > tested, or which tool chain has been used to build it). Ok. > Also we should probably not only allow for positive test reports, but > also allow to report failures (to mark board support as broken). Yep, this will set livetime = 0 -> EMail to board maintainer ... > All this cannot be done in boards.cfg . > > And there is no need to as long as we provide tools to query for any > information we might be interested in. Ok, then we must define this way ... bye, Heiko -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany