Re: [RFC/RFT v3 09/14] arm64: dts: move common G12A & G12B modes to meson-g12-common.dtsi

From: Jerome Brunet
Date: Wed Jul 03 2019 - 08:49:05 EST


On Wed 03 Jul 2019 at 13:51, Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 03/07/2019 01:54, Martin Blumenstingl wrote:
>> Hi Neil,
>>
[...]
>> does it make sense to name this file "meson-g12a-g12b-sm1-common.dtsi" instead?
>> do you know whether there will be a successor to G12B and what it's
>> code-name will be?
>
> meson-g12a-g12b-sm1-common seems a bit long to me...

+1 ... and what if the generation after that is compatible as well ? We
extend the name again ? Such naming scheme does not scale.

meson-g12-common.dtsi looks good to me. IMO, The fact the sm1 dtsi includes
the file is enough to understand that sm1 derive from the g12a/b

>
> We don't have naming of the future SoCs, since SM1 is only available on
> prototypes yet.
>
> Neil
>
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>> Martin
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