[U-Boot] [PATCH] Makefile: print warning if CONFIG_SYS_EXTRA_OPTIONS is used

[Maxime Ripard]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 08:58:55PM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 21 February 2017 at 16:16, Maxime Ripard
> <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 03:24:53PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> >> The prompt of this option is marked "DEPRECATED" in capital letters,
> >> and its help clearly says:
> >>   This option was prepared for the smooth migration from the old
> >>   configuration to Kconfig. Since this option will be removed sometime,
> >>   new boards should not use this option.
> >>
> >> However, we have had almost no progress on this.  In fact, this
> >> option is often abused for fresh porting, and more and more new
> >> defconfigs with it are coming in (for example, SUNXI boards).
> >
> > That's not entirely true. We've added more defconfig, but with the
> > same set of options we've always had, and are shared by everyone
> > (CONS_INDEX, RGMII).
> >
> > So this patch, in effect, gives the signal that it's better to have a
> > proliferation of board-specific headers in include/configs, over using
> > SYS_EXTRA until most of the generic functions are merged?
> 
> I suppose whoever adds the next board gets to do the conversion?

That seems a bit unfair to ask someone that barely got into U-Boot to
enable his new shiny sunxi board to convert the old Freescale's PPC
defconfig in the process.

Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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