On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 04:29:08PM +0200, Paul Kocialkowski wrote: > Le mardi 14 avril 2015 à 16:22 +0200, Maxime Ripard a écrit : > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 04:14:24PM +0200, Paul Kocialkowski wrote: > > > > > I understand the point though, that it can be > > > > > seen as an ABI (don't break the ABI), but it would be a shame for us > > > > > to > > > > > this as a pretext to not correct our mistake. > > > > > > > > > > Don't get me wrong, I don't like breaking ABIs more than the next guy > > > > > (even though I fear Hans is starting to think this is becoming kind of > > > > > habit for me), but this is really borderline. > > > > > > > > Nothing borderline about it, take a standard Fedora or Debian image, > > > > both of which rely on the dtb name embedded in the u-boot binary, > > > > change the dtb name in the kernel, upgrade the kernel, try to boot, > > > > and voila the board will not boot (and no the old dtb file will not > > > > help, as each kernel build has its own dir with dtb files). > > > > > > > > Really this is as hard an ABI as one can get, please do not break it. > > > > > > Okay that makes sense, let's forget about the device-tree side then. > > > > If you have some suggestions for future DT names, I'm definitely open > > to it though. > > Well, I think the best thing to do is to agree on a global naming scheme > that allows spaces, dashes upper-case and lower-case and just apply > rules to convert that name to each particular project. > > The rules for device-tree names would look something like: > * replace spaces with dashes > * replace upper-case by lower-case
How is that different from what we're doing right now? -- Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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