He, Zhengting wrote:

>     Why do you think "modifying the drivers for customized boards is a wrong 
> idea"?

   Because the drivers shouldn't contain anything board specific, at least not
directly. Some TI's code like the MMC driver has been plagued by that.

> MV or open source cannot support every board that every customer makes, right?

   TI isn't even trying to ease that task putting the code specific to EVM
into the drivers.

> Or do I misunderstanding your point?

>     When you said "we can't just rename them to omapl1xx.c to not offend the 
> other",

   I didn't finish typing. I meant to say "the other TI's branch which markets
DA8xx". :-)

> do you mean renaming it will change other part of the source code, makefile 
> etc.?

   It sure will.

> It might be tedious but is that a lot of effort?

   Double names would look quite stupid, to be honest. And I'm not sure they
will be upstream acceptable.

> Zhengting He (Ph.D)
> Application Engineer
> DSP Catalog
> email: [email protected]
> voice: 281-274-4355
> fax: 281-274-2279

WBR, Sergei

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