[U-Boot] [PATCH 00/11] i2c: Remove old I2C support

[Michal Simek]

On 23.4.2017 17:35, Simon Glass wrote:
> We have about 6600 CONFIG options to convert to Kconfig at the time of
> writing and our target is to complete work by the end of the year[1]. We
> have no hope of doing this unless we adopt a somewhat more agressive
> approach to dropping old boards and options.
> 
> There are a very large number of deprecated or very old options. It does
> not make sense to convert these to Kconfig just to carry the debt for
> another few years. We should remove these options.
> 
> Rather than completely dropping boards, one idea is to remove the parts
> of their support which have not been migrated. This was done with some
> Samsung boards recently, and it provided the maintainers with enough time
> to come in and make the changes a few cycles later.
> 
> CONFIG_I2C_SOFT and CONFIG_I2C_HARD are very old. This series removes
> them. Boards which rely on these options for I2C support lose some of
> their functionality. To regain it they would need to be migrated to driver
> model. We could later fully remove some of these boards if they are not
> converted, but perhaps a software approach is better for now?

Make sense.

Thanks,
Michal