[U-Boot] [PATCH] sandbox: move source files from board/ to arch/sandbox/

[Simon Glass]

Hi Masahiro,

On 23 April 2014 20:14, Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com> wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 09:04:20 -0600
> Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Masahiro,
>>
>> On 21 April 2014 19:00, Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Simon,
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 15:02:20 -0600
>> > Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi Masahiro,
>> >>
>> >> On 21 April 2014 03:39, Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com> wrote:
>> >> > Prior to commit 33a02da0, all boards must have board/${BOARD}/
>> >> > or board/${VENDOR}/${BOARD}/ directory.
>> >> > Now this rule is obsolete.
>> >> >
>> >> > It looks weird that sandbox defines "vendor" and "board" just for
>> >> > meeting the old U-Boot directory structure.
>> >> >
>> >> > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com>
>> >> > Cc: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>> >> > ---
>> >> > Simon,
>> >> >
>> >> > I moved board/sandbox/sandbox/sandbox.c to arch/sandbox/lib/sandbox.c
>> >> >
>> >> > But if there is a more suitable place or file-name, please move.
>> >>
>> >> I like the README move, but I worry about not having a sandbox board,
>> >> from the point of view of discoverability. How will people find it?
>> >
>> > I am not sure if this is necessary.
>> >
>> > I just personaly thought the board directory seems odd for Sandbox
>> > because it is not a real board.
>> >
>> > If you don't like this patch, feel free to reject it.
>>
>> I think it is better to have board/sandbox. Is it possible to have a
>> null vendor, so we don't need board/sandbox/sandbox?
>
> Of cource.
> There are many boards without vendors.
>
>
> In that case, you can set the 5th column to '-' in boards.cfg.
>
>
> Active  sandbox     sandbox        -           sandbox sandbox sandbox
>
> to
>
> Active  sandbox     sandbox        -           -         sandbox sandbox
>
>
>
> With this change, you can decrease one level hierarchy.
>
> board/sandbox/sandbox/sandbox.c
>     ->  board/sandbox/sandbox.c

That seems better to me. Will you update your patch?

Regards,
Simon