board/device file names, and machine names

[bgat@billgatliff.com (Bill Gatliff)]

Daniel Walker wrote:
>
> I'm ok with doing renames once all the code is merged .. That's always
> been one of the options with the Google code. 
>   

No.  Please, no.

The ideal outcome is that the kernel.org code becomes the canonical
source code for the platform, i.e. the difference between kernel.org and
Google/Qualcomm-internal code is nil.  You might not ever get there, but
you pretty much close off that opportunity entirely when you start
renaming stuff.

> However, we need some future direction .. If we do a rename later on
> with the older code, then we ideally want new code to be submitted with
> appropriate names..
>   

... which requires work from all interested parties: Qualcomm, Google,
and the community.  Far less likely to happen than, say, we all learn
that "mahimahi == Nexus One" because we read it in a comment somewhere.


b.g.

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