[U-Boot] [PATCH 03/45] arm: Remove most LaCie boards

Tom Rini
2015-09-02T13:08:48Z

On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 02:07:41PM +0200, Simon Guinot wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 07:16:16AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> > Hi Simon,
> >
> > On 31 August 2015 at 01:51, Simon Guinot <simon.guinot@sequanux.org> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 07:18:57PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> > >> These boards have not been converted to generic board by the deadline.
> > >> Remove all except edmini_v2 (which has been converted).
> > >
> > > Hi Simon,
> > >
> > > Great... Is it still time to convert this boards to "generic board"
> > > support ?
> >
> > Yes if you are quick - please see doc/README.generic-board which has
> > instructions. It should be very simple.
>
> OK. It is done.
>
> >
> > >
> > > You know, a direct email (I mean with my email address in the To or Cc
> > > fields) to make me aware of this project would have been both fair and
> > > very appreciated.
> >
> > OK well I'm sorry you haven't seen anything up until now. I wonder if
> > we should cc all the maintainers when we have an announcement that
> > affects their boards. There are a lot of maintainers though!
>
> The result of the current process is a patch series which removes
> support for a _lot_ of boards. It can't be correct. Moreover the
> conversion work consists in adding a single define. I think it would
> be far better to add the missing define for all this boards rather
> than kicking them out.

So, I understand your frustration. I thought we had sent out an email
or two to board maintainers at various points about this conversion
(which has been going on for over 2 years, and a single line change for
at least a year, pretty much everywhere) but it looks like some boards
slipped through the cracks and didn't get emailed.

But it's also been a bit over 2 years and I'm pretty sure that at least
3 or 4 times in my release emails I've said "we're going to delete
boards that aren't converted, please convert and test!".

So yes, Simon first made a series to blind-convert the straglers but
then we decided to delete instead as this is a good test for how
interested people are in the hardware and if we can drop some code that
will make other conversions which are going on now easier too.

--
Tom
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