From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ew0-f219.google.com ([209.85.219.219]:38246 "EHLO mail-ew0-f219.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750932Ab0ACO1G (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Jan 2010 09:27:06 -0500 Received: by ewy19 with SMTP id 19so6481938ewy.21 for ; Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:27:03 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Korsgaard Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] powerpc: Add support for ram filesystems in FIT uImages References: <1261446643-21714-1-git-send-email-ptyser@xes-inc.com> <1261446643-21714-4-git-send-email-ptyser@xes-inc.com> <20091231224439.AF5353F6D1@gemini.denx.de> <1262301038.29396.137.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20100101104449.6DAC63F6FF@gemini.denx.de> <87wrzzpq8c.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <20100103095032.8F05AE34A26@gemini.denx.de> Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:27:00 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20100103095032.8F05AE34A26@gemini.denx.de> (Wolfgang Denk's message of "Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:50:32 +0100") Message-ID: <87skanp8ln.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Wolfgang Denk Cc: Peter Tyser , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Wolfgang" == Wolfgang Denk writes: Hi, >> No, that would break stuff for the existing users. The existing format >> make/file names shouldn't change. Wolfgang> Well, with this argument you can block all progress and freeze all Wolfgang> development to some ancient state. We only break backwards compatibility when we have to. There's no technical reason for renaming the existing make targets. >> The FIT images could be called fitimage or uImage.new or something. Wolfgang> I disagree. We want to make this the new default, so let's Wolfgang> use the default name for this, and continue to support he Wolfgang> legacy image format using another name. Wolfgang> Also, your approach does not scale. Assume we come up with an Wolfgang> even more advanced image format in the future - how should we Wolfgang> name it then? "uImage.newer" ? "uImage.verynew" ? Wolfgang> "uImage.new2" ? Hence fitimage. The next thing will presumably be called something else again. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard