Re: [PATCH 0/4] kho: rename "scratch" to "bootmem"
From: Gregory Price
Date: Mon Aug 17 2026 - 12:02:23 EST
On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 09:52:31AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 10:42:00AM -0400, Gregory Price wrote:
> >
> > Is there a non-verbiage reason to justify these changes? Living with
> > "scratch" seems better than potentially breaking folks.
>
> I don't think these are the first breaking changes. And if the changes
> are fine, then that means more breaking changes are fine, too. So why is
> this upstream at all until the design is settled?
>
Surely we should not break deployments for the sake of renaming
something that is very arguably already aptly named?
~Gregory