[U-Boot] [linux-sunxi] [PATCH v2 1/2] sunxi: Rename bananapi board as bananapi m1

[Maxime Ripard]

On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 09:31:13AM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 5:58 AM, Karsten Merker <merker at debian.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 01:06:54AM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:
> >> From: Jagan Teki <jagan at amarulasolutions.com>
> >>
> >> from BPI(BIPAI KEJI LIMITED) products the Bananapi board
> >> is named as 'Bananapi M1' and this is the starting
> >> bananapi board from M1 series.
> >>
> >> So rename the board defconfig, dts and suffix 'M1' on
> >> model for the same  so-that next sequence on bananapi starts
> >> like M1 Plus, M2 and so.on
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > the equivalent change in the kernel has been NACKed by me as with
> > the proposed change the installation of a newer kernel would
> > break a large number of existing end user systems (which rely on
> > the old dts file name and on the old model string).
> >
> > U-Boot should keep the same dts as the kernel, so this
> > effectively means a NACK to this change for u-boot as well.
> 
> Do the distros also keep a list of defconfig targets to build
> for U-boot?  It seems that way for Debian. I imagine just
> changing the defconfig names would be troublesome for the
> maintainers.

Not only the distros, but all the buildsystems too. This is really
something we shouldn't change, ever.

Maxime

-- 
Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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