[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] arm: Remove unofficial mach-type number uses

[Albert ARIBAUD]

Hi Vladimir,

Le Wed, 25 Jan 2017 03:34:13 +0200, Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz at mleia.com> a
écrit :

> Hypothetically it could be possible that a machine maintainer finds that
> after rebasing private changes on top of the latest Linux release, a board
> mach type is not recognized by the Linux kernel due to an expired and
> removed entry in mach-types, then s/he updates a record in Russell's DB
> to get the old machine type ID again. However a counterpart change in
> U-boot board config won't be synced automatically, and IMHO it should be
> stated that this problem is neglected, obviously because it causes
> maintenance burden for no gain.

I suspect there's also a case where a custom (non-mainline) kernel is
used on a given board and expects a machine ID from U-Boot, but this
machine ID is not required to be in RMK's list. Ugly, but such things
happen.

> That said, your change is good, it may produce a discontent in particular
> cases, but it won't be problematic to remove it by partial commit
> reverting and adding an explanatory comment into the code.

Agreed.

> --
> With best wishes,
> Vladimir

Cordialement,
Albert ARIBAUD
3ADEV