On 21 October 2016 at 21:14, Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 10/21/16 21:58, Jordan Justen wrote: >> On 2016-10-21 12:37:21, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >>> I don't remember seeing any discussion regarding >>> DISABLE_NEW_DEPRECATED_INTERFACES on the list, so I am a bit surprised >>> seeing these bugs being filed and assigned. >>> >> >> I agree. >> >> Also, the terminology seems confusing. 'new deprecated' seems like a >> contradiction. I guess it means 'newly deprecated', but that seems >> like a term that is quickly going to become obsolete. Soon there will >> be old deprecated items that are disabled with this switch. >> DISABLE_DEPRECATED_INTERFACES sounds better. >> >> But, shouldn't we have platforms opt-in to using the deprecated >> interfaces rather than adding DISABLE_NEW_DEPRECATED_INTERFACES to the >> build command line for every EDK II platform? >> >> Not using deprecated items should be the default for EDK II platforms. >> If a platform has to opt-in to the deprecated content in their .dsc, >> then it is obvious that they are relying on deprecated functionality. >> >> So, I guess I'd propose adding ENABLE_DEPRECATED_INTERFACES instead. > > I'm about to post a ~20-part series for OvmfPkg and ArmVirtPkg together > that solves these BZs. :/ The DISABLE_NEW_DEPRECATED_INTERFACES feature > test macro is already being used in three MdePkg library class header > files (and a number of library instances), so I thought it was a done deal. > > I don't want to stifle the discussion of course, but at this point I > think I will post the patches for review. >
Yes, please. Removing uses of deprecated interfaces is something we should do anyway. What we shouldn't do is configure our platforms in such a way that additional future deprecation automatically break the build, unless we have a strong commitment from the other package owners that they will ensure that this does not happen. _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.01.org https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel
