kumquat-buildroot/support
Thomas De Schampheleire ba4ad9d27c deprecated handling: introduce BR2_DEPRECATED_SINCE_xxxx_xx
In order to keep better track of when a feature got deprecated, and hence
when it can be removed, a new set of symbols BR2_DEPRECATED_SINCE_xxxx_xx is
introduced. These symbols are automatically selected when BR2_DEPRECATED is
selected, and thus are transparent to the user.
A deprecated feature will no longer depend on BR2_DEPRECATED directly, but
rather on the appropriate BR2_DEPRECATED_SINCE_xxxx_xx. If that symbol does
not yet exist, it has to be created in Config.in.
When removing a deprecated feature, one should also check whether this was
the last feature using the BR2_DEPRECATED_SINCE_xxxx_xx symbol, in which
case the latter can be removed from Config.in.

A followup patch will make sure the overview is added to the list of
deprecated features in the manual, so that a buildroot core developer can
easily determine which features to remove in a given development cycle.

Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-01-10 15:03:53 +01:00
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dependencies core: add BR2_HOSTARCH_NEEDS_IA32_COMPILER option 2013-12-01 23:30:58 +01:00
dummy-external core: allow external Config.in/makefile code to be integrated 2013-12-08 22:39:42 +01:00
gnuconfig
kconfig support/kconfig: Fix remaining 'kernel' mention 2013-12-28 16:05:25 +01:00
legal-info
libtool
misc
scripts deprecated handling: introduce BR2_DEPRECATED_SINCE_xxxx_xx 2014-01-10 15:03:53 +01:00