[U-Boot] [PATCH] sunxi: sinovoip: Use proper naming convention for BPI boards

[Jagan Teki]

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 8:27 PM, Chen-Yu Tsai <wens at csie.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 10:24 PM, Jagan Teki <jagan at openedev.com> wrote:
>> From: Jagan Teki <jagan at amarulasolutions.com>
>>
>> - Rename Sinovoip BPI defconfigs to use small letter
>> - To avoid naming conflict with 'LeMaker' add sinovoip
>>   prefix to BPI M2 Ultra defconfig since bananapi is
>>   also name used by 'LeMaker'
>> - Add 'SINOVOIP' prefix 'BANANAPI M2 ULTRA BOARD' under
>>   board/sunxi/MAINTAINERS file.
>
> No. The proper solution is to just get rid of the Sinovoip and
> LeMaker bullshit. The brand name has been and will continue to be
> "Banana Pi". Apart from the trademark legal drama between LeMaker,
> Sinovoip, and Foxconn, the boards are now consistently named
> "BPI-xyz". The original "Banana Pi" is now the "BPI-M1". The only
> incompatible outlier is the LeMaker made BananaPro.

But there is one board Bananapi_defconfig which is from LeMaker, which
will conflict if we skip these and use binanapi for rest.

>
> LeMaker and Sinovoip are distributors. Maybe they manufacture(d)
> as well, but I'm not so sure.
>
> Also, see https://www.spinics.net/lists/devicetree/msg176001.html
>
> Note that "BIPAI KEJI LIMITED" is just a translation for BPI
> Technologies limited. BIPAI is the phonetics for B-PI in English.
> KEJI is the phonetics for "technology" in Chinese.

Thanks for the info.

>
> Finally, is there a preference for all lowercase defconfig file names?

Yes, for newly supported and/or longer stable defconfigs/boards follow
lower-case defconfig file names in U-Boot.

thanks!
-- 
Jagan Teki
Free Software Engineer | www.openedev.com
U-Boot, Linux | Upstream Maintainer
Hyderabad, India.