Trying again in plain text to avoid the HTML-means-mail-is-automatically-SPAM filter. -- Ted On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Brian Swetland <swetland@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> We would, of course, prefer to keep the board named mahimahi for all >> the reasons that have been mentioned in various previous discussions >> around trout, etc: >> 1. This was the name used during development for the platform. >> 2. This is the name the bootloader uses and the production bootloader >> passes module parameters, etc under this name > > This to me is the biggest thing to get right --- if there is deployed > userspace which is using this name (mahimahi) in the bootloader to boot the > machine, then changing this means that it adds a barrier to users who want > to use the standard device userland, but who want to try testing their own > kernel built from mainline. Assuming that we eventually solve the rest of > the issues, it would be a darned shame that just because the upstream > community wanted to be "helpful" in renaming the device, someone wanting to > build from upstream sources has a to apply a patch reversing the rename so > that it will actually *work* on a standard Nexus One.... > > -- Ted > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
