On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 07:22:46PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 03:21:46PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:20:47AM -0500, Jason Cooper wrote:
> > > By "That" are you referring to extending the standard for compatible
> > > strings to the board level, or forcing consistent naming on the dts
> > > files?
> > 
> > A consistent file naming on both the dtb and dts files.
> 
> It's time to knock the idea of naming the DT blobs after the compatible
> string on its head as well.  That's really not going to work.  Just
> leave the filenames as is, and move the problem into userspace to solve.

Ack, I was working my way towards that anyway.

> See - by doing this, you are building policy into the kernel build
> system and potentially taking away choice from userspace.

And this is my reason for dropping the idea.  Thanks for clarifying it
for me.  I'll submit a non-RFC version that just copies the files
without the name change.

thx,

Jason.
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