[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] Feature Removal: disable "mtest" command by default

[Tom Rini]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 09:51:32PM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

> The "mtest" command is of little practical use (if any), and
> experience has shown that a large number of board configurations
> define useless or even dangerous start and end addresses.  If not even
> the board maintainers are able to figure out which memory range can be
> reliably tested, how can we expect such from the end users?  As this
> problem comes up repeatedly, we rather do not enable this command by
> default, so only people who know what they are doing will be
> confronted with it.
> 
> As this changes the user interface, we allow for a grace period
> before this change takes effect. For now, we make "mtest"
> configurable through the CONFIG_CMD_MEMTEST variable, which is defined
> in include/config_cmd_default.h;  we also add an entry to
> doc/feature-removal-schedule.txt which announces the removal of this
> default setting in two releases from now, i. e. with v2013.07.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>
> Cc: Tom Rini <trini at ti.com>
> ---
> v2: - Fix spelling errors in doc/README.memory-test;
>       kudos to Ira W. Snyder

Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!

-- 
Tom
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