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

[Marek Vasut]

On Thursday, April 03, 2014 at 09:01:30 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 11:35:10AM -0600, 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.
> 
> So, Marek and I were discussing this on IRC as well.  Given about a year
> and nothing converted (except for new things) I opted for the noisier
> approach.  It really is a simple switch and for the record, if distro
> people would be so kind as to switch it on and report back that nothing
> happens, that'd be really helpful too.

Like I said already, it is fine for me to do this after the release, but not in 
-rc3 .

Best regards,
Marek Vasut