Re: [U-Boot] [PATCHv3 03/10] Kconfig: Add DEPRECATED option

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

•   bool
  

•   help
  

•     This option cannot be enabled.  It it used as a dependency for
  

•     code that relies on deprecated features that will be removed and
  

•     the 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.