Dear Sascha, In message <20090421223025.ga21...@pengutronix.de> you wrote: > > s...@octopus:~/octopus/u-boot/u-boot find board -name "flash.c" | wc -l > 201 > s...@octopus:~/octopus/u-boot/u-boot find board -name "config.mk"| wc -l > 411 > > So nearly half of the boards in U-Boot seem to be unmaintained since the > advent of the generic flash driver five years ago.
I disagree with your interpretation. Why should aboard maintainer change running code without need? We never asked to change the flash driver of existing boards because there was no need for doing this. So why should anybody spend efforts to change these? > How can you possibly ever change the API for the flash driver with 201 > different flash drivers in the tree without marking something as broken? Well, *if* we wanted to change the API, that would be a reason to get rid of the old legacy flash drivers. But so far no such API change has been necessary. And here and there the old drivers are even necessary due to restrictions of the CFI driver that are not too easy to fix. So what exactly is it you are critizising? That we don't abondon working code just because it is old? Hm... > One of these boards is the Auerswald Innokom, a board Robert once > ported. We probably still have it somewhere @Pengutronix, but nobody in > the world has any interest in running a top of tree U-Boot on it. Still > it is in the tree and by policy it has to be supported for all eternity. Feel free to submit patches to remove it from the tree if you care. On the other hand - how much effort was actually spent on keeping this board alive? Obviously not much, because so far nobody com- plained about it. Actually that's the whole idea about having a board in mainline. If you look at the changes that were applied to the related files, it's all stuff that was done 99% automatically with some scripts - and I don't really care if these are applied to 20 boards or to 200. I fail to understand what you are trying to tell us. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de "I can call spirits from the vasty deep." "Why so can I, or so can any man; but will they come when you do call for them?" - Shakespeare, 1 King Henry IV, Act III, Scene I. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
