[U-Boot] [PATCH 8/8] Migrate generic bootcount to Kconfig

[Alex Kiernan]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 7:13 PM, Lukasz Majewski <lukma at denx.de> wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
>> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 8:53 AM, Lukasz Majewski <lukma at denx.de>
>> wrote:
>> >> >> Whatever we do, I think CONFIG_SYS_BOOTCOUNT_ADDR wants
>> >> >> splitting into at least two:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> - I2C - an offset from an I2C base for the bootcounter
>> >> >   - RAM/SoC memory - location of special register to store
>> >> > bootcounter
>> >> >> - Others - an actual address used for storing the bootcounter
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I'm struggling to see why EXT is the way it is - AFAICS the
>> >> >> location it uses to access/return the bootcounter is basically
>> >> >> local to the two functions in bootcount_ext and could just be a
>> >> >> local variable.
>> >> >
>> >> > Maybe we can replace it with local, static variable then?
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > As said above - I would remove the (wrongly?) used
>> >> > BOOTCOUNT_ADDR in Kconfig.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Just removing SYS_BOOTCOUNT_ADDR from Kconfig and putting the
>> >> default back into bootcount_ext seems like the simplest correct
>> >> change. I'll add that onto the series and throw it at Travis.
>> >
>> > Great. I'm looking forward for next verison of the code - as I do
>> > have some code to be put on top of it.
>> >
>>
>> So the super-trivial approach doesn't work, because
>> CONFIG_SYS_BOOTCOUNT_ADDR isn't in the whitelist anymore
>> (7af2e3648f3f6d726f6476745c2eec5de709a702) and I think the only reason
>> it was getting through before is because scripts/check-config.sh
>> doesn't parse conditionals in Kconfig so thought it was allowed :(
>>
>> I expect reintroducing CONFIG_SYS_BOOTCOUNT_ADDR to
>> config_whitelist.txt would "fix" the problem, but that's not going to
>> make it in.
>>
>> Which I think means I have to do the work to migrate it out of CONFIG_
>> land properly.
>>
>
> Ok. I see.
>

'tis done. Only I've fallen foul of the recipient limit on the mailing
list :( Will see if the two pieces get pushed out, if not I'll go and
trim the list and try again.

As you say, this isn't a patch for -rc2

-- 
Alex Kiernan