On 11/20/2018 02:42 PM, Tom Rini wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 02:40:43PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote: >> 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 ? > > A year for this? No. New deadlines? That's not too far off from what > we've done historically, so yes.
Give people some sort of breathing space to get the conversion done. Stressing people out by arbitrary deadlines will lead nowhere. >> Maybe we need some generic Makefile macro to set those up. > > It would be nice, yes. I think the problem here is (or, was) the > complex set of options that didn't work. The problem was many people didn't know about the conversion deadline or simply forgot. And reminding them with a 100-patch series removing half of the boards is like splashing icy water bucket in their sleeping faces. -- Best regards, Marek Vasut _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
