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

Rafał Miłecki rafal at milecki.pl
Thu Jul 14 23:04:20 PDT 2022


On 2022-07-14 22:37, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> 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.

I'm leaving it up to you whether this name should be updated then.



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