Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Dec 2009 11:07:03 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: HTC Dream: dream is better name for this machine |
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On Sun 2009-12-06 15:27:38, Brian Swetland wrote: > On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote: > > > > While few people may know HTC Dream by its codename, it is better to > > use name of released hardware in the sources. > > I still think that it'd be less pain for everyone to leave it as > trout. If you go by sales volume, the most known released hardware > name is "Tmobile G1", some people know it as ADP1, and I believe it > has sold under a few other names in other markets, but the software
Yes, operators brand their handsets. Unfortunately g1/adp1 names suck -- for being alphabet soups -- and HTC Dream *is* name of the hardware.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Dream
(and it is certainly better name than trout).
> has, since day one, been trout and changing that just makes it harder > to merge other existing changes where we'd have to deal with renames > as well. The bootloader identifies it as "trout", and the userspace > software stack's hardware-specific bits refer to trout.
Well, the longer we wait, the harder it will be to change the nema...
> If it really drives everyone crazy, we could do a big rename once it's > all in and working, but right now I just don't see the benefit.
It is normally better to change such stuff before merging to mainline. Splitting/cleaning patches is generally enough work that little renaming should not be huge problem. Pavel
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