[U-Boot] [PATCH 00/93] dm: Move towards completing CONFIG_BLK migration

[Marek Vasut]

On 11/20/2018 02:37 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 01:42:15PM +0100, Soeren Moch wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 19.11.18 16:52, Simon Glass wrote:
>>> All boards should now be migrated to use CONFIG_BLK. This series removes
>>> those with build problems using this option.
>>>
>>> If maintainers want to keep these boards in they should send a patch in
>>> the next week or two. Otherwise the board will be removed in the next
>>> release, and will need to be added and re-reviewed later.
>> Fabio, Stefano,
>>
>> it seems (almost?) all i.mx6 boards should be removed within two weeks.
>> But would it not make more sense to convert the reference boards first
>> (mx6sabresd
>> in my case for tbs2910), and let hobbyist maintainers like me take this
>> as example for
>> their own modifications?
> 
> So, I replied to the main thread earlier but no, we're not going to drop
> everything in 2 weeks, especially since there's a lot of false positives
> in this series.
> 
>> Simon, Tom,
>>
>> is this really the usual u-boot working style to remove about hundred
>> boards within
>> two weeks without prior warning? As hobbyist board maintainer I try to
>> follow
>> new developments, and more than once I fixed up regressions introduced
>> by others
>> in general code.
>> But I cannot follow all development details without any heads-up. And
>> even the
>> NXP folks seem to be surprised about this.
>>
>> All problems with this transition seem to be located around usbstorage
>> and sata.
>> This is for sure not really very board specific. Is there any migration
>> guide, or
>> examples how other SoC architectures did this conversion?
> 
> I'll admit this hasn't been our best notification.  But, the deadline
> was discussed about a year ago (and then no, I didn't get a build-time
> warning in).  Then around v2018.05 I said it wasn't going to be a
> removal type problem yet as we had a lot of boards to fixup still, and
> repeated that at v2018.07.  That did lead to a lot of things getting
> addressed.  But yes, we still have some large areas that after a few
> years still have not been converted, and that puts me in a hard spot
> too.

Build time warning for a year would be good ?
Maybe we need some generic Makefile macro to set those up.

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Best regards,
Marek Vasut