Re: [PATCH] ARM: msm: Move msm devicetrees under a Qualcomm dir

From: Kumar Gala
Date: Thu Sep 12 2013 - 13:55:45 EST



On Sep 12, 2013, at 12:06 PM, Olof Johansson wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Kumar Gala <galak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 12, 2013, at 11:46 AM, Olof Johansson wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Kumar Gala <galak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Use the Qualcomm vendor prefix (qcom) as the directory name for
>>>> Qualcomm MSM devicetrees going forward.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Let's not move just one platform like this. If we are to do this, we
>>> should move everything, and that will be really painful and needs to
>>> be done in a controlled manner, probably scripted and right before a
>>> -rc1 or such.
>>
>>
>> Than I suggest we deal with it when we pull the device trees out of the kernel tree.
>>
>> As such, I'd tell Rohit to go forward with the file being named apq8074-dragonboard.dtb for the time being.
>
> My original request to please use a common prefix for your product
> families stands. Please prefix with msm-*, or if you have to, qcom-*
> instead, since you guys can't seem to make your mind up on standard
> prefixes (msm, apq, etc).

This is silly, I dont see the reason to go with qcom-apq<SOC>-<BOARD>.dts and than in the future drop qcom- when we mostly likely shift to a dir structure. As engineers we are all too aware of the lack of sanity in marketing names, but its what we have so we have to live with it.

- k

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