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

[Rohit Vaswani]

On 9/12/2013 7:05 PM, Kumar Gala wrote:
> On Sep 12, 2013, at 5:47 PM, David Brown wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:55:36PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> > > On Sep 12, 2013, at 12:06 PM, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > At least what we'd decided a year or two ago was to call _everything_
> > with an msm* prefix.  If marketing comes up with cute prefixes for
> > things, we would basically ignore them.  So, under that, it should be
> > an msm8074-dragonboard.  Admittedly, it might be a little confusing
> > with the name of the product having the apq in it, but as others have
> > pointed out, I think there is less confusing than not having a common
> > prefix on our MSM products.
> >
> > At least so far, there are no chips where apq vs msm actually
> > distinguishes anything.  In fact, a simple "decoder ring" would point
> > out that the 'apq' usually corresponds with the second digit being a
> > zero.  It doesn't help that we've added an 'mpq' prefix as well.
> >
> > I don't really see how to satisfy all of this other than qcom-apq*, or
> > just continue to use msm*.

I think going ahead with what David mentioned  for msm* works if we can 
be consistent or if we want to explicitly mention apq in the file name, 
then
we can rename them to be qcom-msm* or qcom-apq* if people care about the 
differences between them.

> I think msm has run out of steam, especially as more SoCs come out of Qualcomm that aren't just targeting phones & tablets.
>
> - k


Thanks,
Rohit Vaswani

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