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: > > 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. > > > 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 > > 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