I agree that we should use the board name instead of the kit name, if dk is the same board as pdk.
On Wed, 22 Aug 2018, 15:12 Andrzej Kaczmarek, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Since nRF52840 DK is available for quite some time now, I was going to > rename "nrf52840pdk" to "nrf52840dk" so it matches current version. > However, it is a good moment to change naming scheme for all dev kits > from Nordic and use board name (e.g. PCA10056) instead of dev kit name > (e.g. nRF52840 DK). There are at least two good reasons for this: > > 1. avoid possible renames in future once new revision of dev kit is > launched (PDK -> DK) since this is the same board, just with a > different revision > 2. make selection of proper BSP easier since each board has its name > clearly visible on a sticker (note that BSP description states both > names) > > I created a PR which does such rename: > https://github.com/apache/mynewt-core/pull/1348 > > Thoughs? Are there any good reasons why we should not rename it? > (except for historical reasons :P) > > Best, > Andrzej >
