[U-Boot] [PATCH 00/93] dm: Move towards completing CONFIG_BLK migration

Tom Rini
2018-11-20T13:37:39Z

On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 01:42:15PM +0100, Soeren Moch wrote:
>
>
> On 19.11.18 16:52, Simon Glass wrote:
> > All boards should now be migrated to use CONFIG_BLK. This series removes
> > those with build problems using this option.
> >
> > If maintainers want to keep these boards in they should send a patch in
> > the next week or two. Otherwise the board will be removed in the next
> > release, and will need to be added and re-reviewed later.
> Fabio, Stefano,
>
> it seems (almost?) all i.mx6 boards should be removed within two weeks.
> But would it not make more sense to convert the reference boards first
> (mx6sabresd
> in my case for tbs2910), and let hobbyist maintainers like me take this
> as example for
> their own modifications?

So, I replied to the main thread earlier but no, we're not going to drop
everything in 2 weeks, especially since there's a lot of false positives
in this series.

> Simon, Tom,
>
> is this really the usual u-boot working style to remove about hundred
> boards within
> two weeks without prior warning? As hobbyist board maintainer I try to
> follow
> new developments, and more than once I fixed up regressions introduced
> by others
> in general code.
> But I cannot follow all development details without any heads-up. And
> even the
> NXP folks seem to be surprised about this.
>
> All problems with this transition seem to be located around usbstorage
> and sata.
> This is for sure not really very board specific. Is there any migration
> guide, or
> examples how other SoC architectures did this conversion?

I'll admit this hasn't been our best notification. But, the deadline
was discussed about a year ago (and then no, I didn't get a build-time
warning in). Then around v2018.05 I said it wasn't going to be a
removal type problem yet as we had a lot of boards to fixup still, and
repeated that at v2018.07. That did lead to a lot of things getting
addressed. But yes, we still have some large areas that after a few
years still have not been converted, and that puts me in a hard spot
too.

--
Tom
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