On Sep 16, 2013, at 1:28 PM, Rohit Vaswani wrote: > 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 I think the two options are either: qcom-msm*, qcom-apq*, etc or qcom/msm-*, qcom/apq*, etc I'm guessing we'll end up without the dir and in the future have: qcom/qcom-msm-*, qcom/qcom-apq-* Olof??? - k -- Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
