[U-Boot] [PATCH 03/16] spi: Add non DM version of SPI_MEM

[Jagan Teki]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 2:19 PM Vignesh R <vigneshr at ti.com> wrote:
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> On 13/12/18 1:55 AM, Jagan Teki wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 11:08 PM Vignesh R <vigneshr at ti.com> wrote:
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> >> Add non DM version of SPI_MEM to support easy migration to new SPI NOR
> >> framework. This can be removed once DM_SPI conversion is complete.
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> > Our intention to use new driver to follow dm, why we need to support
> > non-dm? any usecases?
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> As said by others, AFAICS, DM_SPI migration is not going to be complete
> anytime soon. There are many boards and configs that don't enable
> DM_SPI. I propose you add a patch to print _warning during build_ for
> boards that don't have DM_SPI enabled (like DM_MMC and DM_USB) targeting
> v2019.07 or v2019.04 as deadline for removal. At the deadline you can
> remove spi-mem-nodm.c along with all other non DM code in SPI core.

I don't understand why DM_SPI migration came to this topic? It's a
separate thread/issue.

Do you think any development opensource project will agree to push the
code which may remove it in future? ie what my point here.