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

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 08:23:53AM +0100, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> 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.

Sigh, I guess we've got enough cases of this that I'll re-work things
based on the full mach-types list instead.  Thanks folks!

-- 
Tom
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