Thread (38 messages) 38 messages, 9 authors, 2025-10-02

Re: [PATCH 7/8] of: replace command line handling

From: Daniel Walker (danielwa) <hidden>
Date: 2023-11-16 16:33:40
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On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 10:09:36AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 05:38:11PM -0800, Daniel Walker wrote:
quoted
Rob Herring has complained about this section of code. I removed the
command line handling code to the cmdline.h header. This hopefully makes
it easier for Rob to maintain it (at least he doesn't have to look at it
directly anymore).
Well, my goal is to eliminate drivers/of/, but no.
quoted
I would like to add a Kconfig option called
OF_DEPRECATED_CMDLINE which an architecture would set if it uses this code.
Which architecture needs this code? Do we wait and see who complains 
their platform broke and then go set this option? In the meantime, new 
platforms started depending on the new behavior and setting the option 
may break them. So we can't have a kconfig option.
 
 I think you misunderstood the comments. The objective is,

 1) Remove the code in drivers/of/
 2) Remove platform specific command line handling
quoted
This would allow a platform to use the cmdline.h and the added function
directly and remove the Kconfig option. This change would be in a subsequent
patch.
Per platform code handling the cmdline is completely the wrong 
direction. Per arch behavior is bad enough.
This code unifies the handling into generic code outside drivers/of/ .

Daniel
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