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

[Marek Vasut]

On Thursday, April 03, 2014 at 07:35:10 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> 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.

I did fix my boards (m28evk, m53evk) and there were no issues. PXA will need to 
wait a bit after I'm done with higher-prio stuff.

What I find really unfortunate is that this went in during rc3 and made all 
boards spew warning.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut