Hi, On 21 February 2017 at 16:16, Maxime Ripard <maxime.rip...@free-electrons.com> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 03:24:53PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote: >> The prompt of this option is marked "DEPRECATED" in capital letters, >> and its help clearly says: >> This option was prepared for the smooth migration from the old >> configuration to Kconfig. Since this option will be removed sometime, >> new boards should not use this option. >> >> However, we have had almost no progress on this. In fact, this >> option is often abused for fresh porting, and more and more new >> defconfigs with it are coming in (for example, SUNXI boards). > > That's not entirely true. We've added more defconfig, but with the > same set of options we've always had, and are shared by everyone > (CONS_INDEX, RGMII). > > So this patch, in effect, gives the signal that it's better to have a > proliferation of board-specific headers in include/configs, over using > SYS_EXTRA until most of the generic functions are merged?
I suppose whoever adds the next board gets to do the conversion? This patch is a step forward. But how about adding a build error whenever a non-whitelisted board defines CONFIG_SYS_EXTRA? Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
