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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4/6] arm64: dts: rockchip: Rename roc-pc with libretech notation
On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 3:02 AM Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Jagan,
>
> Am Donnerstag, 19. September 2019, 07:28:20 CEST schrieb Jagan Teki:
> > Though the ROC-PC is manufactured by firefly, it is co-designed
> > by libretch like other Libretech computer boards from allwinner,
> > amlogic does.
> >
> > So, it is always meaningful to keep maintain those vendors who
> > are part of design participation so-that the linux mainline
> > code will expose outside world who are the makers of such
> > hardware prototypes.
> >
> > So, rename the existing rk3399-roc-pc.dts with libretch notation,
> > rk3399-libretech-roc-rk3399-pc.dts
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jagan Teki <jagan@amarulasolutions.com>
> > ---
> > arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/Makefile | 2 +-
> > .../{rk3399-roc-pc.dts => rk3399-libretech-roc-rk3399-pc.dts} | 0
>
> Somewhat "randomly" renaming files for "exposure" of the maker isn't the
> way to go. Especially as the file name itself is merely a handle and not
> meant for fame. The board filename should mainly enable developers to
> hopefully the correct board file to use/change - and "rk3399-roc-pc"
> is sufficiently unique to do that.
>
> Similar to how the NanoPi boards do that.
>
> And renames not only loose the history of changes but also in this case
> the file is in the kernel since july 2018 - more than a year, so this might
> actually affect the workflow of someone.

Yes, I agreed this point.

>
> So I'd really expect an actual technical reason for a rename.

This changes purely based on the recent changes on naming conventions
that have been followed in amlogic and allwinner with regards to
libretech [1]. I have seen few Bananapi boards from Allwinner H3 has
been converted as per Libretech computer recently. I assume these
changes are because libretech has part of co-designed vendor and also
open source forum supported for these hardware.

For further information, may be Da Xue can comment on this.

[1] https://libre.computer/products/boards/

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