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

[Simon Glass]

Hi Wolfgang,

On 22 October 2014 11:37, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> 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?

Yes it does a substring match. I'm open to suggestions on this though.
It actually supports regular expressions.

>
>> 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!

Regards,
Simon