On 11/20/2018 02:37 PM, Tom Rini wrote: > 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.
Build time warning for a year would be good ? Maybe we need some generic Makefile macro to set those up. -- Best regards, Marek Vasut _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
