Re: [PATCH] ARM: OMAP2+: Warn about deprecated legacy booting mode

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Hi,

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 08:43:03AM -0500, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> On 10/28/2014 05:12 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > * Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@xxxxxx> [141027 16:03]:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 01:00:09PM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> >>> +
> >>> +	if (!of_have_populated_dt())
> >>> +		pr_warn("WARNING: legacy booting deprecated, please update to boot with .dts\n");
> >>> +
> >>
> >> Maybe use WARN so that the warning is more verbose and kernel gets tainted?
> > 
> > Well I was hoping to avoid annoying people with the trace.
> > But can do that if people prefer that, what do others think?
> > 
> 
> WARN is better and eye catchy. Also, could we add information on when
> the support will be removed since we call it deprecated?

I also think, that more eye catchy is better.

Apart from that I wonder if we should drop support on a
board-by-board basis and then drop omap3 support completly once all
boards have been dropped.

-- Sebastian

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