linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] ARM: mstar: Add infinity/mercury series dtsi

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Date:   Fri, 12 Jun 2020 00:07:59 +0900
From:   Daniel Palmer <daniel@...f.com>
To:     Andreas Färber <afaerber@...e.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] ARM: mstar: Add infinity/mercury series dtsi

Hi Andreas,

On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 at 23:39, Andreas Färber <afaerber@...e.de> wrote:

> The downside would be if someone wanted to add newer sstar chips under
> the new name later, then they wouldn't be grouped with predecessor
> families. Right now it seems like mercury and infinity are not that
> different, so I figured it might be useful for people contributing
> patches to see that changes in one might require review of the other.

I've thought about this too. One thing I considered was not using
mstar or sstar at all
and doing the same thing as sunxi and using either the "chenxing"
(MorningStar, MStar) or "xingchen" (SigmaStar)
moniker instead.
However, there are lots of kernel dumps from MStar based TVs etc in
the wild already that are using the mstar
prefix so just continuing to use that seems like the right thing to do.

Thanks,

Daniel