board/device file names, and machine names

[Theodore Tso]

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-- Ted

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Theodore Tso <tytso at google.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Brian Swetland <swetland at google.com> wrote:
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>> We would, of course, prefer to keep the board named mahimahi for all
>> the reasons that have been mentioned in various previous discussions
>> around trout, etc:
>> 1. This was the name used during development for the platform.
>> 2. This is the name the bootloader uses and the production bootloader
>> passes module parameters, etc under this name
>
> This to me is the biggest thing to get right --- if there is deployed
> userspace which is using this name (mahimahi) in the bootloader to boot the
> machine, then changing this means that it adds a barrier to users who want
> to use the standard device userland, but who want to try testing their own
> kernel built from mainline.   Assuming that we eventually solve the rest of
> the issues, it would be a darned shame that just because the upstream
> community wanted to be "helpful" in renaming the device, someone wanting to
> build from upstream sources has a to apply a patch reversing the rename so
> that it will actually *work* on a standard Nexus One....
>
> -- Ted
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