Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] powerpc: Add support for ram filesystems in FIT uImages

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On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Wolfgang Denk <wd@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear Grant Likely,
>
> In message <fa686aa40912301502x48785614ya4dd5c71815a7633@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote:
>>
>> IIRC, uImage.fit.initrd.% should appear before uImage.fit.% in the
>> Makefile so that make behaves more consistently.  Speaking of which,
>> the number of '.' in the name is getting rather large.  Would you
>> consider using 'fitImage' instead of 'uImage.fit'?
>
> Why chose a different name at all? We could still call it "uImage",
> meaning "U-Boot image" - U-Boot is clever enought o detect
> automatically if we pass it an old style or a fit image.

Simply because arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile needs different target names
to decide which kind of image to build.  I don't care much about the
name, it can always be renamed at install time, but I do care that the
make build targets are sane.

g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
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