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

[Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>]

On Sep 16, 2013, at 1:28 PM, Rohit Vaswani wrote:

> On 9/12/2013 7:05 PM, Kumar Gala wrote:
>> 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 going ahead with what David mentioned  for msm* works if we can be consistent or if we want to explicitly mention apq in the file name, then
> we can rename them to be qcom-msm* or qcom-apq* if people care about the differences between them.
> 
>> 
>> I think msm has run out of steam, especially as more SoCs come out of Qualcomm that aren't just targeting phones & tablets.
>> 
>> - k

I think the two options are either:

qcom-msm*, qcom-apq*, etc

or 

qcom/msm-*, qcom/apq*, etc

I'm guessing we'll end up without the dir and in the future have:

qcom/qcom-msm-*, qcom/qcom-apq-*

Olof???

- k

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