Set a deadline of the end of 2027 for removal of what is now the legacy
API.
Series-to: concept
Series-cc: heinrich
Cover-letter:
api: Deprecate the API
The existing U-Boot API is quite old and doesn't support driver model.
Adding new functions is a manual process and no one has attempted this in
the 10 years that driver model has been present. Undertaking such a task
would be laborious and would require continued effort to maintain.
A better approach would be to create a library containing all of U-Boot, then
have the API be generated by a script from a list of functions. This would
allow for a more flexible and maintainable interface.
In preparation for this new direction, this series renames the existing API
components to clearly mark them as legacy:
- Rename api/ to legacy_api/
- Rename examples/api/ to examples/legacy_api/
- Rename include/api.h and include/api_public.h to include/legacy_api*.h
- Rename API_BUILD to LEGACY_API_BUILD
- Rename CONFIG_API to CONFIG_LEGACY_API
- Rename api_init() to legacy_api_init()
This provides a clean namespace for implementing the new library-based API
approach while maintaining backward compatibility for existing users of the
legacy interface.
This series also sets a deadline for removal of the legacy API.
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Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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