On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 08:58:55PM -0700, Simon Glass wrote: > Hi, > > On 21 February 2017 at 16:16, Maxime Ripard > <[email protected]> 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?
That seems a bit unfair to ask someone that barely got into U-Boot to enable his new shiny sunxi board to convert the old Freescale's PPC defconfig in the process. Maxime -- Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com
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