From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.251]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B988DDE01F for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:12:20 +1100 (EST) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c37so116395anc.78 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:12:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:12:19 -0600 From: "Grant Likely" Sender: glikely@secretlab.ca To: "Dale Farnsworth" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] [POWERPC] mv64x60: change FDT compatible prefix to mrvl In-Reply-To: <20080329000047.GA31116@farnsworth.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <20080328233954.GA29499@farnsworth.org> <20080328234241.GA30214@farnsworth.org> <20080329000047.GA31116@farnsworth.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Dale Farnsworth wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 05:47:25PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Dale Farnsworth wrote: > > > From: Dale Farnsworth > > > > > > Follow the convention that compatible names are prefixed by the > > > vendor's stock ticker symbol. For Marvell Technology Group Ltd., > > > that's MRVL. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Dale Farnsworth > > > Acked-by: Mark A. Greer > > > > Are there any boards "in the wild" using the old string? If so are > > does changing this string risk complicating upgrades to a new kernel > > version? > > I don't think this complicates things much, since all these boards boot > a dtbImage, with an embedded dtb file built from the kernel source. > So the dts and code don't have much opportunity to get out of sync. Cool; then looks good to me! :-) Acked-by: Grant Likely -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.