Paul Fertser wrote:
> > I think it's a bad thing to teach any users to use ftdi/ if that
> > directory is intended to ever go away.
> 
> I'm not anyone to decide, but my personal preference would be for it
> to stay forever. ... I think it's easier to have them grouped
> together for OpenOCD-related development.

I would like to get rid of the subdirectory so that the config file
layout is uniform again.

I don't think it's neccessarily bad to introduce structure among the
files but..


> I'd prefer to avoid changing any project openocd.cfg configs again

..remember that you are an early adopter. What about the users who
have interface/$file.cfg in their configs? They'll get a warning..


> > > those users that are already using ft2232 are not having real issues
> > > (since they're using it) so why break it for them?
> 
> > Because nobody wants to (and rightfully so!) spend more time on the
> > ft2232 code, and it is old cruft.
> 
> User complaints do not make anybody spend more time on the code, but I
> agree writing another email to explain them ft2232 deprecation takes
> time. Hopefully, that won't be needed often after the runtime warning
> is merged. I also hope windows users will read README.Windows before
> asking.

..when instead they could be using the new and improved driver
without having to change anything.

(Warn on Windows, pointing to the README.)


//Peter

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