[linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH 3/3] arm64: allwinner: dts: a64: add DT for PineTab developer sample

[Maxime Ripard]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 09:10:38PM +0800, Icenowy Zheng wrote:
> >> >> > Okay. But I'm not satisfied with a non-public sample occupies
> >> >> > the pinetab name. Is rename it to pinetab-dev and add a
> >> >> > pinetab-retail okay?
> >> >>
> >> >> To me, naming the production version anything but "pinetab" isn't
> >> >> satisfying either.
> >> >
> >> >I understand where you're coming from, but the point I was making my
> >> >previous mail is precisely that it's not really possible.
> >> >
> >> >You want to name the early adopter version _the_ production
> >> >version. Let's assume the hardware changes again between the early
> >> >adopter and mass-production version. Which one will be _the_
> >> >production version? The early-adopter or the mass-produced one?
> >> >
> >> >There's really no good answer here, and both would suck in their
> >> >own way. The only way to deal with this is to simply avoid
> >> >defining one version as the one true board, and just loading the
> >> >proper DT in u-boot based on whatever clue we have of the hardware
> >> >revision.
> >
> > > Then will it be okay to rename current pinetab DT to
> > > pinetab-sample and then introduce new DTs all with suffixes?
> >
> > No. From my previous mail:
> 
> It can be seen as dropping the PineTab DT and introduce new DTs with
> suffix.
> 
> Do we have rule that we cannot drop boards?

Are you really arguing that removing a DT and then adding an identical
one under a different name is not renaming it?
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