On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 08:34:42PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Wed, 2015-04-15 at 21:17 +0200, Paul Kocialkowski wrote: > > > Well, the discussion has started on the other part of the thread. I > > think we've agreed so far that it should be: [Vendor]_[Device], except > > in a few cases where [Vendor]_ should be omitted: > [...] > > * When the device can clearly be identified without mentioning the > > vendor, due to a certain renown in the community: I'm thinking of > > Cubieboard, Cubietruck and the Olimex devices. This clearly doesn't > > apply to devices like the AW1 produced by Ainol. > > Who is the arbiter of when this exception applies? It sounds unworkable > to me, or at least it isn't going to lead to any kind of consistency. > > Perhaps the vendor should always be a formal part of the name, and > always present in place which constitute an ABI (like DTB filenames) but > can be omitted by default in other places (such as wiki page names), > unless there is ambiguity (in which case it's included).
I really don't know about that one, but I'd feel like having a DT called sun4i-a10-olimex-a10-olinuxino.dtb would be kind of bad as well. Maxime -- 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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