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

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Date:	Thu, 12 Sep 2013 12:55:36 -0500
From:	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>
To:	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
Cc:	David Brown <davidb@...eaurora.org>,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@...xeda.com>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org list" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Rohit Vaswani <rvaswani@...eaurora.org>,
	linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: msm: Move msm devicetrees under a Qualcomm dir


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

> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On Sep 12, 2013, at 11:46 AM, Olof Johansson wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org> wrote:
>>>> Use the Qualcomm vendor prefix (qcom) as the directory name for
>>>> Qualcomm MSM devicetrees going forward.
>>>> 
>>>> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>
>>> 
>>> 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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