Re: [GIT PULL] at91: DT for 3.16 #2

[Olof Johansson]

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Alexandre Belloni
<alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 21/05/2014 at 14:11:05 -0700, Olof Johansson wrote :
>> > This directory is flat, the board names are chosen by companies and
>> > people that we do not control, a user tend to like finding his preferred
>> > board dtb file unchanged from a kernel revision to another...
>> > Well all this lead me to think that we don't have to loose too much time
>> > thinking about a new strict convention for this file naming or changing
>> > all this once again just for the sake of it.
>> >
>> > Other SoC maintainers beautifully designed from the beginning the naming
>> > scheme of their DT files, fine. AT91 did not and forgive me but when
>> > opening arch/arm/boot/dts/Makefile file and seeing some file names, I'm
>> > not ashamed. Moreover, now that I said to everybody since 3.10 to prefix
>> > their *board* name with "at91-", I have to say something else, I don't
>> > think it is worth it.
>>
>> I don't agree with everything above, but it's not worth arguing for the
>> sake of arguing. :) I think we can tweak what you're doing now and get
>> things to work well by merging new dts files with at91-<soc>-board.dts
>> as the name. As mentioned, don't worry about the existing files. This
>> shouldn't be a significiant change to what you've been telling people
>> since 3.10 to cause much confusion.
>>
>
> I'm not sure we should keep the at91 prefix. The sama5d3 series is not
> at91.

*headdesk* It's part of mach-at91. For all intents and purposes, the label fits.

> I would suggest using <soc>-<vendor>-<board> in the future, like what is
> done for mvebu, berlin and some omap3 and freescale boards. I would
> however make an exception for the evaluation kits and keep the current
> "<soc>ek" name (else we would get sama5d3-atmel-sama5d3ek).

Nack on this as a hard rule. As long as there's a vendor or (large
family) SoC prefix I don't care about the rest of the structure.
Really, let's not waste time on it at this time.

> I also got confused by the at91- prefix when looking for a few dts files
> but I think it is too late to rename now or maybe we could do it all at
> once for a long term release (provided we know which one it will be).
>
> For reference, the list of files that would need renaming:
> animeo_ip.dts
> at91-ariag25.dts
> at91-cosino.dtsi
> at91-cosino_mega2560.dts
> at91-foxg20.dts
> at91-qil_a9260.dts
> ethernut5.dts
> ge863-pro3.dtsi
> kizbox.dts
> mpa1600.dts
> pm9g45.dts
> tny_a9260.dts
> tny_a9263.dts
> tny_a9g20.dts
> usb_a9260.dts
> usb_a9263.dts
> usb_a9g20_common.dtsi
> aks-cdu.dts
> evk-pro3.dts
> at91-sama5d3_xplained.dts

The DTS name is somewhat irritating in that installers and other
environments (my own tester included) rely on file names. There's been
a bunch of discussion about this in the past, but at the end of the
day, you end up irritating people when you rename the resulting dtbs.

As long as we don't keep adding random names beyond those, we should be OK.


-Olof
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