linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 00/26] Add support for the Ingenic JZ4740 System-on-a-Chip

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Date:	Sun, 20 Jun 2010 19:57:54 +0200
From:	Florian Fainelli <florian@...nwrt.org>
To:	Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
Cc:	"Lars-Peter Clausen" <lars@...afoo.de>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Graham Gower <graham.gower@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/26] Add support for the Ingenic JZ4740 System-on-a-Chip

Hi,

Le Sunday 20 June 2010 19:01:11, Thomas Bogendoerfer a écrit :
> On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 06:49:01PM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> > different to JZ4750 and JZ4760. So JZ47xx wont fit either.
> > Right now there is no practical use to moving things around, and there
> > wont be until somebody who can actually test it starts adding support
> > for a different JZ47XX SoC.
> 
> great, I like such attitude:-(

I have to agree with Thomas here, if your concern is about the naming, then 
just have a look at the vendor sources and find similarities for what is worth 
being named JZ47XX and what deserves a name which is more specific. Also, it is 
much easier to do that factoring job now instead of when there will be 3 or 
more flavors of that SoC to be supported.

Take a look at BCM63xx for instance, it is named like that because it supports 
4 different versions of the family SoC, even though the internals of the SoC 
have been varying a lot, still we support it with a single kernel and what is 
really family specific is named accordingly from what is chip-specific.
--
Florian
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