[Buildroot] [PATCH 13/13] Remove BR2_DEPRECATED

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Sat Oct 15 21:07:24 UTC 2016


>>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be> writes:

 > The BR2_DEPRECATED logic is a lot less useful than the legacy handling,
 > because the symbols just disappears without warning to the user. For
 > example, we had a few defconfigs that were using deprecated symbols
 > (which were not actually used because BR2_DEPRECATED wasn't set) so
 > these didn't build the expected code anymore.

 > Also, the idea behind BR2_DEPRECATED is that you can easily revive it
 > again if there is interest. However, it is relatively easy to revert
 > the removal of a package as well.

 > The deprecation is also more effort because it has to be removed twice:
 > once when deprecating, and once when really removing.

 > It doesn't make sense to add a legacy entry for BR2_DEPRECATED. Users
 > who actually used it will get legacy warnings instead.

 > Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>

Committed, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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