[U-Boot] [PATCH v10 14/14] RFC: Deprecate MAKEALL

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Wed Oct 22 19:37:34 CEST 2014


Dear Tom,

In message <20141022171908.GC25506 at bill-the-cat> you wrote:
> 
> My concern is that we'll get people complaining about things not being
> mapped back exactly right.  For example, MAKEALL am335x_evm builds one
> board, am335x_evm_config but buildman am335x_evm builds the whole family
> of configs.  For a build test bisect run, that's fine (even if not
> optimal in that it'll build more than required).  In fact if I read
> things right (Simon?) buildman is bad for a single board/config.

This is one of my open questions with buildman, too. Simon?

> If we map out MAKEALL's -m/-M to just fail and say use get_maintainer.pl
> I think we can "good enough" map out everything else.  With perhaps an
> echo to please use buildman directly when possible?

Sounds good enough to me.

Thanks!

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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