[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] MAKEALL: fix get_target_arch() to adjust to '-' in Status field

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Sun Apr 5 20:31:44 CEST 2015


Hi Tom,

On 1 April 2015 at 05:19, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 08:39:57PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
>
>> Hi Masahiro,
>>
>> On 30 March 2015 at 05:59, Masahiro Yamada
>> <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com> wrote:
>> > Since the Kconfig conversion, boards.cfg scanned by MAKEALL is
>> > generated by tools/genboardscfg.py.  Every board is supposed to have
>> > its own MAINTAINERS that contains maintainer and status information,
>> > but, in fact, MAINTAINERS is missing from some boards.
>> >
>> > For such boards, the first field, Status, is filled with '-'.
>> > It causes a problem for "set" command, which ignores '-' in its
>> > arguments.  Consequently, get_target_arch() returns a wrong field
>> > and MAKEALL fails to get a correct toolchain.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>
>> >   - Improve git description
>>
>> Should we perhaps apply the patch to deprecate MAKEALL?
>
> With the last patch I posted about what binaries to save all my usecases
> are covered now.

OK, do you think we can wait until the merge window before doing
these? I don't see any great hurry.

Regards,
Simon


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