On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 09:15:11PM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:
On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 7:08 PM Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 01:03:46PM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:
On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 2:33 AM Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com wrote:
Add a new option, CONFIG_DEPRECATED, for code that relies on deprecated functionality and has not been converted past the deadline for conversion.
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com
Kconfig | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Kconfig b/Kconfig index a02168690f5b..436308854d0c 100644 --- a/Kconfig +++ b/Kconfig @@ -20,6 +20,13 @@ config BROKEN This option cannot be enabled. It is used as dependency for broken and incomplete features.
+config DEPRECATED
boolhelpThis option cannot be enabled. It it used as a dependency forcode that relies on deprecated features that will be removed andthe conversion deadline has passed.then, what would be the exact diff b/w broken vs deprecated? I do see same meaning in terms of code maintenance, though it is working or non-working.
It is a matter of human language. There was objection to using broken as technically the code functions (and thus is not broken) but does use deprecated APIs.
Since broken also refer "incomplete features" in kconfig help, I thought this kind of depreciated meaning will literally look similar to broken. based on my experience with other opensource project like, buildroot does also use broken with same meaning as broken. Giving two options of similar meaning atleast from code maintenance point-of-view leads confusion to developers which is the appropriate one to use. I don't see any problem of marking broken with incomplete code (assuming human can treate legacy code or code would require dm conversion as incomplete), giving space for another config option with similar meaning doesn't worth to hold.
And there is disagreement with that point of view. Given the intention and use of both BROKEN and DEPRECATED, having both and using whichever seems better, given the normal usage of both words in english, seems more productive than having a thread on if "was not converted to DM by deadline" means "broken" or "deprecated". I'd rather we all focus on converting what should get converted or pushing things along to remove the boards/platforms eventually that are functionally useless as they've had most features turned off.