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

From: Rohit Vaswani
Date: Mon Sep 16 2013 - 14:28:41 EST


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



Thanks,
Rohit Vaswani

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