[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.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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