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Feature Removal: disable "mtest" command by default
authorWolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Fri, 8 Mar 2013 10:51:32 +0000 (10:51 +0000)
committerTom Rini <trini@ti.com>
Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:26:59 +0000 (15:26 -0400)
commita2681707b2478abef34b8c403e7ab52daae9c331
tree5f3893c85d1122fb9734eb8406e75b70b89264b8
parentc02bff361794cff181bd3eca0ec1edce636f8dd4
Feature Removal: disable "mtest" command by default

The "mtest" command is of little practical use (if any), and
experience has shown that a large number of board configurations
define useless or even dangerous start and end addresses.  If not even
the board maintainers are able to figure out which memory range can be
reliably tested, how can we expect such from the end users?  As this
problem comes up repeatedly, we rather do not enable this command by
default, so only people who know what they are doing will be
confronted with it.

As this changes the user interface, we allow for a grace period
before this change takes effect. For now, we make "mtest"
configurable through the CONFIG_CMD_MEMTEST variable, which is defined
in include/config_cmd_default.h;  we also add an entry to
doc/feature-removal-schedule.txt which announces the removal of this
default setting in two releases from now, i. e. with v2013.07.

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Cc: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
README
common/cmd_mem.c
doc/README.memory-test [new file with mode: 0644]
doc/feature-removal-schedule.txt
include/config_cmd_all.h
include/config_cmd_default.h