[PATCH v2 5/8] arm: bcmbca: Move BCM63138 ARCH_BCM_63XX to ARCH_BCMBCA

[Florian Fainelli]

On 7/13/22 08:31, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> On 7.07.2022 09:00, William Zhang wrote:
>> Remove ARCH_BCM_63XX Kconfig for BCM63138 and merge its selections to
>> ARCH_BCMBCA. Delete bcm63xx.c as it is no longer needed.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: William Zhang <william.zhang at broadcom.com>
> 
> What about ARCH_BCM_63XX references in
> 1. arch/arm/Kconfig.debug

That one was dealt with:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=fa0ef5a086a05306fc5322bbda73459725eda923


> 2. arch/arm/configs/multi_v7_defconfig

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=a65ee523a9e41d0bf046cf0107e6bbf05d068af2

patch 8/8 of this series

> 
> Did you handle them in some other patchset?
> 
> 
> This change is probably going to break "make oldconfig" for users. Is
> there any kernel policy for that? Do we care about it? Should we leave
> old symbol as hidden and make ARCH_BCMBCA auto-selected if it's set?

I do not believe anyone but me was enabling CONFIG_ARCH_BCM_63XX so this 
did not have any users until the BCA team decided to take over.

> 
> 
> Finally it'd probably be more clean to first introduce
> ARCH_BCMBCA_CORTEXA9 and then get rid of ARCH_BCM_63XX.

That is fair, however a bit late now that the pull requests have been 
accepted by the soc maintainers.

Thanks!
-- 
Florian