From: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
To: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Cc: Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org>, Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>,
linux-sunxi@googlegroups.com, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
Vishnu Patekar <vishnupatekar0510@gmail.com>,
linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk>,
Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/11] drivers: pinctrl: add driver for Allwinner A64 SoC
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 17:51:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160204165151.GK4270@lukather> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56B0DF26.10203@arm.com>
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Hi Andre,
On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 04:53:58PM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote:
> > So, droping it in the filenames, why not. But I'd really like to keep
> > the same compatible scheme.
>
> And I still don't get this: in the DT compatible scheme we always have a
> vendor prefix, so allwinner,a64 is surely not a mysterious ARM Ltd. core
> or a new Apple SoC. Instead it is the A64 from Allwinner, full stop. So
> why should we add an arbitrary and confusing sun50i naming to it (when
> it actually should be more like "sun8i-a64").
I don't decide on their marketing names. And I know you want to start
anew with the arm64 SoCs, but the truth is, you don't. Most of the
compatibles in the DTSI are from earlier SoCs, and we have to keep
that legacy and remain consistent with it. With all the good and bad
things a legacy imply.
Maxime
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-04 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-01 17:39 [PATCH 00/11] arm64: Introduce Allwinner A64 and Pine64 support Andre Przywara
2016-02-01 17:39 ` [PATCH 01/11] irqchip: sun4i: fix compilation outside of arch/arm Andre Przywara
2016-02-02 14:51 ` [tip:irq/urgent] irqchip/sun4i: Fix compilation outside of arch/ arm tip-bot for Andre Przywara
2016-02-02 15:12 ` [PATCH 01/11] irqchip: sun4i: fix compilation outside of arch/arm Matthias Brugger
2016-02-02 15:32 ` Andre Przywara
2016-02-02 16:50 ` Matthias Brugger
2016-02-01 17:39 ` [PATCH 02/11] crypto: sunxi-ss: prevent compilation on 64-bit Andre Przywara
2016-02-02 3:16 ` Herbert Xu
2016-02-02 8:42 ` [linux-sunxi] " LABBE Corentin
2016-02-06 7:46 ` Herbert Xu
2016-02-01 17:39 ` [PATCH 03/11] drivers: rtc: allow compilation of sun6i RTC for all sunxi SoCs Andre Przywara
2016-02-02 9:44 ` Maxime Ripard
2016-02-04 22:58 ` Alexandre Belloni
2016-02-01 17:39 ` [PATCH 04/11] arm64: Introduce Allwinner SoC config option Andre Przywara
2016-02-02 15:20 ` Matthias Brugger
2016-02-02 15:30 ` Andre Przywara
2016-02-02 16:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-01 17:39 ` [PATCH 05/11] drivers: pinctrl: add driver for Allwinner A64 SoC Andre Przywara
2016-02-01 18:27 ` Karsten Merker
2016-02-01 18:45 ` [linux-sunxi] " Karsten Merker
2016-02-01 23:02 ` André Przywara
2016-02-01 22:49 ` André Przywara
2016-02-02 1:58 ` [linux-sunxi] " Siarhei Siamashka
2016-02-02 14:24 ` Andre Przywara
2016-02-02 17:37 ` Maxime Ripard
2016-02-02 10:00 ` Maxime Ripard
2016-02-02 10:09 ` Chen-Yu Tsai
2016-02-02 16:53 ` Andre Przywara
2016-02-04 16:51 ` Maxime Ripard [this message]
2016-02-08 15:54 ` Rob Herring
2016-02-08 15:58 ` Andre Przywara
2016-02-09 17:12 ` Maxime Ripard
2016-02-01 17:39 ` [PATCH 06/11] clk: sunxi: add generic multi-parent bus clock gates driver Andre Przywara
2016-02-01 18:40 ` Jean-Francois Moine
2016-02-01 23:01 ` André Przywara
2016-02-01 17:39 ` [PATCH 07/11] clk: sunxi: add generic allwinner,sunxi name Andre Przywara
2016-02-08 15:57 ` Rob Herring
2016-02-08 16:06 ` Andre Przywara
2016-02-01 17:39 ` [PATCH 08/11] clk: sunxi: improve error reporting for the mux clock Andre Przywara
2016-02-02 18:02 ` Maxime Ripard
2016-02-02 18:05 ` Andre Przywara
2016-02-01 17:39 ` [PATCH 09/11] clk: sunxi: add critical-clocks property to mux clocks Andre Przywara
2016-02-01 17:39 ` [PATCH 10/11] arm64: dts: add Allwinner A64 SoC .dtsi Andre Przywara
2016-02-01 19:05 ` [linux-sunxi] " Karsten Merker
2016-02-01 23:03 ` André Przywara
2016-02-02 16:24 ` Jens Kuske
2016-02-02 16:46 ` Andre Przywara
2016-02-02 17:40 ` Jens Kuske
2016-02-05 8:55 ` Chen-Yu Tsai
2016-02-05 8:50 ` Maxime Ripard
2016-02-08 9:42 ` Andre Przywara
2016-02-23 18:45 ` Maxime Ripard
2016-02-01 17:39 ` [PATCH 11/11] arm64: dts: add Pine64 support Andre Przywara
2016-02-01 19:22 ` [linux-sunxi] " Karsten Merker
2016-02-01 23:04 ` André Przywara
2016-02-05 9:03 ` Maxime Ripard
2016-02-05 10:04 ` Andre Przywara
2016-02-08 0:55 ` [linux-sunxi] " Julian Calaby
2016-02-09 20:33 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-02-11 10:32 ` Maxime Ripard
2016-02-02 7:57 ` [PATCH 00/11] arm64: Introduce Allwinner A64 and " lists.nick.betteridge
2016-02-02 8:12 ` André Przywara
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