[PATCH v2] binman: bintool: remove btool_ prefix from btool names

Quentin Schulz foss+u-boot at 0leil.net
Sat Sep 3 19:45:04 CEST 2022


Hi Simon,

On September 3, 2022 7:01:14 PM GMT+02:00, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>Hi Quentin,
>
>On Sat, 3 Sept 2022 at 02:48, Quentin Schulz <foss at 0leil.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Simon,
>>
>> On September 2, 2022 10:00:18 PM GMT+02:00, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>> >Hi Quentin,
>> >
>> >On Thu, 1 Sept 2022 at 08:44, Quentin Schulz <foss+uboot at 0leil.net> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> From: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz at theobroma-systems.com>
>> >>
>> >> The binary is looked on the system by the suffix of the packer class.
>> >> This means binman was looking for btool_gzip on the system and not gzip.
>> >>
>> >> Since a btool can have its btool_ prefix missing but its module and
>> >> binary presence on the system appropriately found, there's no need to
>> >> actually keep this prefix after listing all possible btools, so let's
>> >> remove it.
>> >>
>> >> This fixes gzip btool by letting Bintool.find_bintool_class handle the
>> >> missing prefix and still return the correct class which is then init
>> >> with gzip name instead of btool_gzip.
>> >>
>> >> Fixes: 0f369d79925a ("binman: Add gzip bintool")
>> >> Cc: Quentin Schulz <foss+u-boot at 0leil.net>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz at theobroma-systems.com>
>> >> ---
>> >>  tools/binman/bintool.py | 2 ++
>> >>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>> >
>> >Do we still need this patch? Please see u-boot-dm/testing
>> >
>>
>> Since you took the V1, no. Either version  is fine IMO though the second version would have been a cleaner approach when a second btool prefixed with btool_ will appear (if that ever happens).
>
>Hmm I cannot find v1. Can you please send the patchwork link?
>

https://source.denx.de/u-boot/custodians/u-boot-dm/-/commit/daa2da754afe1bac777f6cb0f05233e0de7b325d

Though, admittedly, not sure how one could have figured that one out since the title and content are entirely different from V2.

Both patches are fixing the same bug, how should I have handled this new patch? As an entirely new patch and comment to the V1 that it is abandoned? Link to the V1 in the V2 and comment in the V1 where to find V2? Just wondering what's the process here if there's any?

>Or perhaps just a new patch against dm/testing would sort this out?
>

Sure, can do. In essence it'll be this patch plus the one linked above reverted, all in one patch (or two?). But if there's no plan to have other btool_ prefixed btools, maybe it's just not necessary since the one is already fixed with the aforementioned commit.

>>
>> I might carve some time to rename all btools to have btool_ as prefix and remove the prefix as done in this patch before use, so that we simplify things a bit.
>
>I think tools with Python-module equivalents will be an uncommon case,
>so it seems better to keep the special-casing code.
>

I like consistency in naming and was quite confused why only one had a different naming. But if there's no interest in such a patch, fine by me, I won't fight it :)

Cheers,
Quentin

>Regards,
>Simon


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