[PATCH v3 01/13] ARM: mvebu: rename armada-370-xp.c to armada-mvebu.c

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Thu Feb 13 07:52:17 EST 2014


On Thursday 13 February 2014, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> I believe it's a matter of taste here. Having a file named
> armada-370-xp.c that handles Armada 375 and Armada 38x looks highly
> confusing to me, and I believe both Grégory and Ezequiel were of the
> same opinion.

I certainly agree that it's confusing, but we also do this all the time
in the kernel.

> The number of changes to this file is very limited, so the probability
> of having a large number of complicated patches touching the same file
> being in flight is fairly low.
> 
> Maybe we can leave this taste decision to the mach-mvebu maintainers?

Definitely, sorry for being unclear here. I wasn't saying  you need to
change it, just trying to state my personal preference.

	Arnd



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