On 24.03.2016 16:27, Andy Yan wrote: >>> +- mode-normal: Normal reboot mode, system reboot with command "reboot". >>> +- mode-recovery: Android Recovery mode, it is a mode to format the >>> device or update a new image. >>> +- mode-bootloader: Android fastboot mode, it's a mode to re-flash >>> partitions on the Android based device. >>> +- mode-loader: A bootloader mode, it's a mode used to download image >>> on Rockchip platform, >>> + usually used in development. >> The "bootloader" and "loader" examples are very confusing. Maybe just >> name the first one as "mode-fastboot" and second as >> "rockchip-download"? The term "loader" does not look for me as >> anything related to uploading/downloading new firmware. > > About these two modes, we have a long discussion with Rob and John [0] > We keep them as what you see now to keep compatibility with exiting > devices. > > [0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/2/128 To me these names are non-obvious and I would rather expect choosing meaningful names when putting something into the mainline. The user (Android) will use this mainline kernel release in a year or more (3 years for vendors?), so it will have plenty of time to adopt. :) But this was already discussed and you got ack from Rob, so let's move on. I don't mind. Best regards, Krzysztof -- 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
