From: maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com (Maxime Ripard)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: sunxi: change the AllWinner A1X to sunxi
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:06:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140117120641.GA3867@lukather> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3612364.BZBltgonI0@wuerfel>
Hi Arnd,
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:40:56AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 January 2014 10:10:06 Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 04:34:04PM +0100, Gerardo Di Iorio wrote:
> > > Change the AllWinner A1X SOCs to Allwinner Sunxi SOCs
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Gerardo Di Iorio <arete74@gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > > arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Kconfig | 2 +-
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Kconfig
> > > index 547004c..adb2574 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Kconfig
> > > +++ b/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Kconfig
> > > @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
> > > config ARCH_SUNXI
> > > - bool "Allwinner A1X SOCs" if ARCH_MULTI_V7
> > > + bool "Allwinner Sunxi SOCs" if ARCH_MULTI_V7
> >
> > I wonder if the sunxi (apart the weird letter case) is actually
> > needed. Maybe we can just put "Allwinner SoCs" (it would be great if
> > you could fix the SoCs case too).
>
> If you want to have exact naming, try to find something that excludes the
> old Sun3i (F20) and earlier chips (unless someone is already planning
> to work on them). Maybe also mention the "Boxchip" name, although that
> seems to be falling out of use these days.
I'm not sure that's good to exclude chips. We have a number of SoCs we
don't support even on later families (A31s, A23, mostly). I'm not sure
we want to have an ever growing list of SoCs supported (or
not-supported).
"sunXi" would be fine I guess, or "A-series" like suggested on IRC.
Maxime
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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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2014-01-09 15:34 [PATCH] ARM: sunxi: change the AllWinner A1X to sunxi Gerardo Di Iorio
2014-01-15 9:10 ` Maxime Ripard
2014-01-15 9:40 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-01-15 13:28 ` Gerardo Di Iorio
2014-01-17 12:06 ` Maxime Ripard [this message]
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2014-01-09 14:15 Gerardo Di Iorio
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