Dear Otavio Salvador, In message <cap9odkr3xau_vg7ygjyosntd03yvlaygrdszc-y4jqgdi+d...@mail.gmail.com> you wrote: > > >> include/configs/RPXsuper.h:#define CONFIG_BOOTDELAY -1 > >> include/configs/ep8260.h:#define CONFIG_BOOTDELAY -1 > >> include/configs/espt.h:#define CONFIG_BOOTDELAY -1 > >> include/configs/scb9328.h:#define CONFIG_BOOTDELAY -1 > >> include/configs/sh7763rdp.h:#define CONFIG_BOOTDELAY -1 > >> > >> So maybe those could have CONFIG_BOOTDELAY undefined keeping them > >> working as before? > > > > Yes, they could. But it is a change of a long-standing behaviour, and > > we try to avoid breaking existing boards. At minimum this needs to be > > announced, the respective board maintainers need to be modified, and > > given sufficient time to react. > > Yes; I agree but breaking out of tree boards ... well, it is the price > of not working upstream so I think it cannot be a blocker for U-Boot > improvements and cleanups.
You also change behaviour (and thus potentially break) at least 5 boards in mainline. See also [1] about breaking user space in Linux (which is pretty much equivalent to what would happen here). [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1414106 Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de "'Tis true, 'tis pity, and pity 'tis 'tis true." - Poloniouius, in Willie the Shake's _Hamlet, Prince of Darkness_ _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
