From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934969AbZLGKHG (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Dec 2009 05:07:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934938AbZLGKHF (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Dec 2009 05:07:05 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:53875 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934893AbZLGKHE (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Dec 2009 05:07:04 -0500 Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 11:07:03 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Brian Swetland Cc: Arve Hj?nnev?g , kernel list , linux-arm-kernel , Daniel Walker , Iliyan Malchev Subject: Re: HTC Dream: dream is better name for this machine Message-ID: <20091207100703.GF23088@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20091206205041.GA12555@elf.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun 2009-12-06 15:27:38, Brian Swetland wrote: > On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > While few people may know HTC Dream by its codename, it is better to > > use name of released hardware in the sources. > > I still think that it'd be less pain for everyone to leave it as > trout. If you go by sales volume, the most known released hardware > name is "Tmobile G1", some people know it as ADP1, and I believe it > has sold under a few other names in other markets, but the software Yes, operators brand their handsets. Unfortunately g1/adp1 names suck -- for being alphabet soups -- and HTC Dream *is* name of the hardware. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Dream (and it is certainly better name than trout). > has, since day one, been trout and changing that just makes it harder > to merge other existing changes where we'd have to deal with renames > as well. The bootloader identifies it as "trout", and the userspace > software stack's hardware-specific bits refer to trout. Well, the longer we wait, the harder it will be to change the nema... > If it really drives everyone crazy, we could do a big rename once it's > all in and working, but right now I just don't see the benefit. It is normally better to change such stuff before merging to mainline. Splitting/cleaning patches is generally enough work that little renaming should not be huge problem. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html