[U-Boot] Start the deprecation process for generic board

[Simon Glass]

Hi Marek,

On 3 April 2014 11:03, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:

> On Friday, March 28, 2014 at 10:16:42 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 05:14:51PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> > > We should move forward to remove the old board init code. Add a
> > > prominent message to encourage maintainers to get started on this
> > > work.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> >
> > Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!
>
> It's now -rc3 , MW is long closed and my board start generating a warning.
> Even
> worse, all boards now generate this warning and I'm worried that this will
> cause
> the more attentive maintainers to take action and produce fast fixes which
> won't
> receive sufficient testing until release is out.
>
> I seriously disagree with applying the patch for current release.
>

Despite the fact that it has been ~1 year and not a lot of people have
taken action, I didn't actually expect it to go in right away, and I'm fine
with a revert for this release if that's what Tom decides. But let's get it
moving ASAP.

Also let me know if there are any questions about how to test. I wrote up a
README in the patch, but am happy to expand it as things come up.

Regards,
Simon