On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 01:03:46PM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 2:33 AM Tom Rini <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Add a new option, CONFIG_DEPRECATED, for code that relies on deprecated
> > functionality and has not been converted past the deadline for
> > conversion.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  Kconfig | 7 +++++++
> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/Kconfig b/Kconfig
> > index a02168690f5b..436308854d0c 100644
> > --- a/Kconfig
> > +++ b/Kconfig
> > @@ -20,6 +20,13 @@ config BROKEN
> >           This option cannot be enabled. It is used as dependency
> >           for broken and incomplete features.
> >
> > +config DEPRECATED
> > +       bool
> > +       help
> > +         This option cannot be enabled.  It it used as a dependency for
> > +         code that relies on deprecated features that will be removed and
> > +         the conversion deadline has passed.
> 
> then, what would be the exact diff b/w broken vs deprecated? I do see
> same meaning in terms of code maintenance, though it is working or
> non-working.

It is a matter of human language.  There was objection to using broken
as technically the code functions (and thus is not broken) but does use
deprecated APIs.

-- 
Tom

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