Hi Eugeniu, On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 8:52 PM Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 02:13:11PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > Disadvantages: > > - The DTB files are renamed. > > This reminded me of a past contribution [*], where, based on feedback > from Laurent and Simon, the decision was to avoid DTS renaming. Does > this series mean that one day, given enough time and resources, we > might also eliminate the "r8a779[5-6]" and "(h3|m3|m3n)" redundancy in > the naming scheme of the ULCB DTS? (not that it bothers me much) Thanks for reminding me! At that time, the rename was considered too intrusive, compared to the slim benefit. However, if we're renaming the files anyway, and thus causing a (temporary) inconvenience for the user, I think this is a good moment to get rid of the "(h3|m3|m3n)" redundancy in the DTS naming scheme (unfortunately we cannot do that for the "renesas,(h3|m3|m3n)ulcb" compatible values). Hence for R-Car H3, I will move forward the rename of the DTS files, so all renames happen in the same kernel release time frame. Regarding the R-Car V3HSK and V3MSK boards, dropping the "v3m" resp. "v3h" from r8a77970-v3msk.dts resp. r8a77980-v3hsk.dts is IMHO different: the boards are not called "sk", and are far from identical, unlike "ulcb" and "salvator-x(s)". Renesas has lots of "sk", "rsk", and "evm" boards. Let's hope they don't plan any unrelated "ulcb" boards... > PS: [Thinking out loud] Need to get prepared for using two versions of > U-Boot scripts when switching between BSP and vanilla kernels on the > r8a77960 targets. This will definitely add a tiny bit of overhead, but > nevertheless it looks like an investment to me, the one which users > will not regret (on the contrary, will be happy about) in some years > from now. I'm fully aware of that inconvenience. > Reviewed-by: Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Thank you! > [*] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10555955/ Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
