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From: bgat@billgatliff.com (Bill Gatliff)
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:25:01 -0600
Subject: board/device file names, and machine names
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Daniel Walker wrote:
> I was wondering if you (or the list) had any suggestions for proper
> names to use in these two cases. Under mach-msm we have tons of devices
> that could be added, and it can sometimes be hard to isolate a sane
> name ..
>   

Nobody outside of Google, HTC and/or Qualcomm will know the internal
names for these devices.

The majority of kernel.org developers don't work for Google, HTC and/or
Qualcomm.  The internal names are therefore meaningless to the majority
of kernel.org developers.

Internet searches by the internal platform names will turn up nothing
useful.

I say use the product release names.  But in board-nexusone.c add a
comment that says "this board is also known as: ...".



b.g.

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