Le lundi 13 avril 2015 à 12:02 -0700, Jens Lucius a écrit :
> Am Montag, 13. April 2015 17:50:48 UTC+2 schrieb [email protected]:
>         After working a bit on sunxi recently, I found myself somewhat
>         puzzled 
>         with the ways sunxi devices are named in mainstream U-Boot,
>         mainstream 
>         Linux (device-tree), sunxi-boards and the linux-sunxi wiki.
>         What bothers 
>         me particularly is the lack of consistency across those
>         projects and 
>         among devices. This is clearly not a technical topic of
>         interest, but 
>         all that disparity and lack of consistency is starting to
>         annoy me a 
>         lot. 
> 
> I got two more examples:
> 
> - Device names are different between sunxi u-boot and mainline u-boot
> - I recently made an error in a commit because the LIME2 board in
> U-Boot is named A20-OLinuXino_Lime2 where the LIME board is named
> A20-OLinuXino-Lime (<- notice different dashes: _ vs - )
> 
> It would be really nice to be consistent but there is always the
> problem to break backwards compatibility when people already use the
> old names.

Well, the old sunxi u-boot is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore.
I don't think that maintaining compatibility with it is a good thing: it
encourages people to use that deprecated piece of software and is a
waste of time. This is why I only mentioned upstream U-Boot.

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