On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 12:49:21PM +0900, HeungJun, Kim wrote: > If you don't mind, I want to let you know additional information. > > I also agree with Mr.Park. > > Generally in the robot field, the term "machine" means the total things > including the machinery part and even the brain "board", and the machine > is more bigger concept.
Some platforms which the kernel runs on are not a 'board' but a set of boards: a motherboard and a separate CPU card. So to call these a 'board' is wrong too. Welcome to the problem: there is not one single term which satisfies everyone. The solution: a compromise. The compromise that has been chosen for the ARM kernel is to call this stuff 'machines' or 'platforms' - and the exynos stuff has decided to call it 'machines'. (Some people have decided to use 'board' in their directories, which is fine _provided_ there is consistency within that directory.) That's actually the _most_ important thing: consistency. So if a maintainer has decided to use one way in their directory, that's the way which rules for that directory. So, please, get over it - and don't start a brand new naming scheme in a directory just because you don't agree with the maintainers opinion. So, please name the board mach-trats.c as requested by Kukjin (who is the maintainer for exynos.) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-samsung-soc" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
