On 23.4.2017 17:35, Simon Glass wrote: > We have about 6600 CONFIG options to convert to Kconfig at the time of > writing and our target is to complete work by the end of the year[1]. We > have no hope of doing this unless we adopt a somewhat more agressive > approach to dropping old boards and options. > > There are a very large number of deprecated or very old options. It does > not make sense to convert these to Kconfig just to carry the debt for > another few years. We should remove these options. > > Rather than completely dropping boards, one idea is to remove the parts > of their support which have not been migrated. This was done with some > Samsung boards recently, and it provided the maintainers with enough time > to come in and make the changes a few cycles later. > > CONFIG_I2C_SOFT and CONFIG_I2C_HARD are very old. This series removes > them. Boards which rely on these options for I2C support lose some of > their functionality. To regain it they would need to be migrated to driver > model. We could later fully remove some of these boards if they are not > converted, but perhaps a software approach is better for now?
Make sense. Thanks, Michal _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot