From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0979DC433F5 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2022 13:14:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1356159AbiCPNPY (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2022 09:15:24 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:46768 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231411AbiCPNPW (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2022 09:15:22 -0400 Received: from ams.source.kernel.org (ams.source.kernel.org [145.40.68.75]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 223172FFF4; Wed, 16 Mar 2022 06:14:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ams.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BFA6EB81AF1; Wed, 16 Mar 2022 13:14:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 68261C340E9; Wed, 16 Mar 2022 13:14:00 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1647436445; bh=PPEdrkC2g3AuMzIflKtsmZp90mDJiQKJzTZHqWU7j2U=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=dsQEHOPi4VCSBnpZQFMtW9oY+THFPTyhl3Y/NRkS65ZWneiV0VUm9UOuKn/GC4XO6 MIkWB9Hum2j9HAl2keiGrrH17W3rHooUubujo4wvxFVpETB4uzHtkiRR8EzibKmvMq 7ZBNg+uZpMGItP3htNY/EPIb2WVVhKufl49dNTWzxmSN3qzHWuQiq3vZkZnWApI5CI nx0i4JWp1RSM+0Dwu2WSPz+fPLdfHC6MGWzz9LWZxFgEZUxz+xfkOYa07uw2IWJPEf 02hMl7yIkzBtmyJrTM4n2CrLmW0yv9/4EOJq21Q2SgaTXs9opGPrVJBKaa9hMhnPbS aLwgaUe5PWmVw== Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 14:13:57 +0100 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab To: Jernej =?UTF-8?B?xaBrcmFiZWM=?= Cc: Laurent Pinchart , Niklas =?UTF-8?B?U8O2ZGVybHVuZA==?= , Cai Huoqing , Chen-Yu Tsai , Dinghao Liu , Dmitry Osipenko , Eugen Hristev , Ezequiel Garcia , Hans Verkuil , Jacopo Mondi , Jia-Ju Bai , Jonathan Cameron , Maxime Ripard , Mikhail Rudenko , Ming Qian , Ondrej Jirman , Robert Foss , Sakari Ailus , Tomi Valkeinen , Yong Deng , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-sunxi@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 47/67] media: platform: rename sunxi/ to allwinner/ Message-ID: <20220316141357.2a460bf3@coco.lan> In-Reply-To: <5701348.MhkbZ0Pkbq@kista> References: <20220315092736.7e805c81@coco.lan> <5701348.MhkbZ0Pkbq@kista> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 4.0.0 (GTK+ 3.24.31; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Em Tue, 15 Mar 2022 19:04:05 +0100 Jernej =C5=A0krabec escreveu: > > > By organizing entries per vendor, while we may need to do puntual > > > per-vendor adjustments when they rename and change IP with other > > > vendors, the global platform Kconfig/Make will contain a single entry > > > per vendor. I can't foresee any need to change this in the future, > > > if we take care of keeping the entries there properly sorted. > > >=20 > > > With regards to naming the per-vendor directory, while I do prefer to= have > > > the directories named after the vendor, and not after a vendor's nic= k=20 > > > name, It should also be ok to use a vendor's nick name, provided that= =20 > > > such name is meant to be used by all their current and future IP. > > >=20 > > > Not sure if "sunxi" is actually a vendor's nick name. It sounds > > > much likely that it is, instead, a brand name that covers their=20 > > > current media-related SoC.=20 > > >=20 > > > Can someone from the vendor shed a light on it? =20 >=20 > Allwinner (as a company) isn't directly involved in maintaining upstream = Linux=20 > support. Drivers are provided by linux-sunxi community, sometimes by clea= ning=20 > up vendor drivers or more often by writing them from scratch. >=20 > That being said, "sunxi" is extensively used in vendor kernel, most often= it's=20 > directory name containing vendor specific driver. It's derived from SoC f= amily=20 > name, like sun4i, sun5i, sun5i, sun50i, etc. where number is replaced wit= h X. >=20 > sunxi is synonym for Allwinner basically from the start. Community build= =20 > around these SoCs is called linux-sunxi and even entry in MAINTAINERS con= tains=20 > both names: "ARM/Allwinner sunXi SoC support". Note that sunxi is not lim= ited=20 > to ARM SoCs. RISC-V family is called sun20i. >=20 > Hope this helps. Ok, so let's then keep it named as "sunxi", and place all drivers from=20 Allwinner there. Thanks, Mauro