Hi Tom, On Sat, 11 May 2019 at 13:36, Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com> wrote: > > + Peng, the new MMC maintainer > > On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 01:23:45PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote: > > > This series starts the process of removing boards which have not been > > converted to driver model for MMC. > > I'm sorry, no. Like I've been saying in the SPI thread, and I thought I > had made clear elsewhere: > - This release we move the drivers to depend on BROKEN. Jagan has a > patch right now that makes BROKEN make another warning happen, but I'm > not 100% sure I like this, but also haven't had a chance to try my > idea of just removing the driver from the build and seeing if the > boards link, or how hard making them link again is. > - Next release we can remove the _drivers_ that depend on BROKEN.
Sorry I must have missed this, have had very little time in the past few months. I did see mention of BROKEN elsewhere but had somehow not made the connection. Could we get a note added to MIGRATION.txt perhaps? > > Yes, this will result in a bunch of boards that aren't nearly so > functional as they would be expected to be. This in turn might lead to: > - Someone stepping up as they care about the hardware > - Removing of the boards down the line when it's clear no one has been > using them as there's a big window where generally key drivers aren't > there anymore. Sounds like a great plan, and much better and easier than removal (which is a real pain to create patches for). Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
