From: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
To: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>, 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, 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: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 18:12:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160209171215.GT31506@lukather> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56B8BB1A.8010705@arm.com>
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On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 03:58:18PM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 08/02/16 15:54, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 05:51:51PM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > I have to agree. Unless there is some agreement to move to another
> > naming scheme, then just follow the same pattern. If sunXi is just a
> > made up name outside of Allwinner to provide some logical grouping of
> > SoCs, then yes, that probably should not have been done.
>
> So I still don't like it, but will not waste my time or energy on that
> front.
>
> Maxime, do you want "allwinner,sun50i-a64" or would
> "allwinner,sunxi-a64" be OK as well?
The former will be fine.
Thanks!
Maxime
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Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-09 17:12 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
2016-02-08 15:54 ` Rob Herring
2016-02-08 15:58 ` Andre Przywara
2016-02-09 17:12 ` Maxime Ripard [this message]
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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