[U-Boot] [PATCH v7 5/5] RFC: Deprecate MAKEALL

[Stephen Warren]

On 08/15/2014 10:13 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> On 15 August 2014 09:46, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 08/14/2014 05:35 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
>>>
>>> Since buildman now includes most of the features of MAKEALL it is probably
>>> time to talk about deprecating MAKEALL.
>>
>>
>> I guess I don't care too much, but I would like to point out that when I mentioned the annoyance of having to change my scripts:
>>
>> from:
>> make ARCH=arm jetson_tk1_config
>>
>> to:
>> make ARCH=arm jetson_tk1_defconfig
>>
>> ... together with having to detect which version to use since different U-Boot commits required a difference command,  one of the answers was that "MAKEALL jetson_tk1" still worked the same on both old and new git commits, and could be used as a replacement. This patch would invalidate that.
>
> Well I suppose you could use:
>
>     ./tools/buildman/buildman jetson_tk1
>
> to get the same effect.

True, although that command has been available for a much shorter time 
than MAKEALL...

Replacing the MAKEALL script body with a call to buildman might solve 
that? I'm not sure that buildman puts the build results in the same place.

But like I said, I'm not too worried about this personally, so there's 
probably no need to change anything.