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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] ARM: msm: Move msm devicetrees under a Qualcomm dir
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    On Sep 12, 2013, at 5:47 PM, David Brown wrote:

    > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:55:36PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
    >>
    >> On Sep 12, 2013, at 12:06 PM, Olof Johansson wrote:
    >
    >>> My original request to please use a common prefix for your product
    >>> families stands. Please prefix with msm-*, or if you have to, qcom-*
    >>> instead, since you guys can't seem to make your mind up on standard
    >>> prefixes (msm, apq, etc).
    >>
    >> This is silly, I dont see the reason to go with
    >> qcom-apq<SOC>-<BOARD>.dts and than in the future drop qcom- when we
    >> mostly likely shift to a dir structure. As engineers we are all too
    >> aware of the lack of sanity in marketing names, but its what we have
    >> so we have to live with it.
    >
    > At least what we'd decided a year or two ago was to call _everything_
    > with an msm* prefix. If marketing comes up with cute prefixes for
    > things, we would basically ignore them. So, under that, it should be
    > an msm8074-dragonboard. Admittedly, it might be a little confusing
    > with the name of the product having the apq in it, but as others have
    > pointed out, I think there is less confusing than not having a common
    > prefix on our MSM products.
    >
    > At least so far, there are no chips where apq vs msm actually
    > distinguishes anything. In fact, a simple "decoder ring" would point
    > out that the 'apq' usually corresponds with the second digit being a
    > zero. It doesn't help that we've added an 'mpq' prefix as well.
    >
    > I don't really see how to satisfy all of this other than qcom-apq*, or
    > just continue to use msm*.


    I think msm has run out of steam, especially as more SoCs come out of Qualcomm that aren't just targeting phones & tablets.

    - k

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    Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
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