[PATCH 1/9] [POWERPC] mv64x60: change FDT compatible prefix to mrvl

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Sat Mar 29 11:12:19 EST 2008


On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Dale Farnsworth <dale at farnsworth.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 05:47:25PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
>  > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Dale Farnsworth <dale at farnsworth.org> wrote:
>  > > From: Dale Farnsworth <dale at farnsworth.org>
>  > >
>  > >  Follow the convention that compatible names are prefixed by the
>  > >  vendor's stock ticker symbol.  For Marvell Technology Group Ltd.,
>  > >  that's MRVL.
>  > >
>  > >  Signed-off-by: Dale Farnsworth <dale at farnsworth.org>
>  > >  Acked-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer at mvista.com>
>  >
>  > Are there any boards "in the wild" using the old string?  If so are
>  > does changing this string risk complicating upgrades to a new kernel
>  > version?
>
>  I don't think this complicates things much, since all these boards boot
>  a dtbImage, with an embedded dtb file built from the kernel source.
>  So the dts and code don't have much opportunity to get out of sync.

Cool; then looks good to me!  :-)

Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca>


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