[RFC 00/27] RISC-V: Convert SOC_FOO symbols to ARCH_FOO

[Conor Dooley]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 08:48:00AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2022, at 8:34 AM, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 11:04:58AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >
> >> and (b) you take this through the RISC-V tree, you will miss all newly
> >> introduced users in other subsystem trees.
> >
> > Aye, your suggested timing makes sense, but there are quite a few
> > subsystems involved here, so maybe doing it at the very end of the
> > window rather than asking everyone to stall until rc2 may be more
> > feasible?
> 
> Since there is no rush here, maybe stage this out over two releases?
> At first, just introduce the new symbols as aliases like
> 
> config ARCH_FOO
>       def_bool SOC_FOO
> 
> then change all the drivers in the following cycle after the syumbol
> exists, and finally rename the user-visible symbols and remove the
> old version.
> 

I think I suggested that at LPC but was told not to bother, which is why
I did a direct conversion. I'd prefer to do it your suggested way
though & I think I will do it that way for a v1.

Thanks,
Conor.