Re: [PATCH] ARM: msm: Move msm devicetrees under a Qualcomm dir

[Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>]

On Sep 12, 2013, at 5:47 PM, David Brown wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:55:36PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>> 
>> On Sep 12, 2013, at 12:06 PM, Olof Johansson wrote:
> 
>>> My original request to please use a common prefix for your product
>>> families stands. Please prefix with msm-*, or if you have to, qcom-*
>>> instead, since you guys can't seem to make your mind up on standard
>>> prefixes (msm, apq, etc).
>> 
>> This is silly, I dont see the reason to go with
>> qcom-apq<SOC>-<BOARD>.dts and than in the future drop qcom- when we
>> mostly likely shift to a dir structure.  As engineers we are all too
>> aware of the lack of sanity in marketing names, but its what we have
>> so we have to live with it.
> 
> At least what we'd decided a year or two ago was to call _everything_
> with an msm* prefix.  If marketing comes up with cute prefixes for
> things, we would basically ignore them.  So, under that, it should be
> an msm8074-dragonboard.  Admittedly, it might be a little confusing
> with the name of the product having the apq in it, but as others have
> pointed out, I think there is less confusing than not having a common
> prefix on our MSM products.
> 
> At least so far, there are no chips where apq vs msm actually
> distinguishes anything.  In fact, a simple "decoder ring" would point
> out that the 'apq' usually corresponds with the second digit being a
> zero.  It doesn't help that we've added an 'mpq' prefix as well.
> 
> I don't really see how to satisfy all of this other than qcom-apq*, or
> just continue to use msm*.


I think msm has run out of steam, especially as more SoCs come out of Qualcomm that aren't just targeting phones & tablets.

- k

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