[PATCH] arm64: bcmbca: include full family name in Kconfig

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli at gmail.com
Thu Jul 14 13:37:38 PDT 2022


On 7/13/22 13:47, William Zhang wrote:
> 
> 
> On 7/13/22 07:53, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
>>
>> It helps to understand that "magic" BCMBCA acronym. The full name was
>> found in Florian's pull request for 5.20.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
>> ---
>>   arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms
>> index 83e3943f7a55..2259d3732cc4 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms
>> @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ config ARCH_BCM_IPROC
>>         This enables support for Broadcom iProc based SoCs
>>   config ARCH_BCMBCA
>> -    bool "Broadcom Broadband SoC"
>> +    bool "Broadcom Broadband Carrier Access (BCA) SoC"
>>       help
>>         Say Y if you intend to run the kernel on a Broadcom Broadband 
>> ARM-based
>>         BCA chipset.
> It is bit complicated about the history and its chips of the BCA group.. 
> Now it is part of Broadband Video Group as known as BVG. WLAN chip is no 
> longer belong to BCA or BVG while we still support its software release. 
>   So I would rather keep it in magic term ;) But if we really want to 
> spell out the full name,  we suggest to use "Broadcom Broadband Carrier 
> Access (BCA) origin SoC".  Same apply to Kconfig for arm32 platform.

OK, I can use that and amend the patch accordingly.
-- 
Florian



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