[PATCH] bootstd: Fix a handful of doc typos in bootmeth

Mattijs Korpershoek mkorpershoek at baylibre.com
Tue Jun 4 17:17:48 CEST 2024


Hi Quentin,

Thanks for the review!

On mar., juin 04, 2024 at 14:22, Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz at cherry.de> wrote:

> Hi Mattijs,
>
> On 6/4/24 2:04 PM, Mattijs Korpershoek wrote:

[...]

>> 
>> There seems indeed to be some inconsistencies around bootmeths versus
>> bootmethods.
>> 
>> To me, we should use 'bootmeth' everywhere.
>> 
>> Simon, as the maintainer of bootflow, do you agree ?
>> 
>> I can spin up another patch to fix this.
>> 
>
> c.f. https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/20211023232635.9195-1-sjg@chromium.org/
>
> """
> For version 2, a new naming scheme is used as above:
>
>     - bootdev is used instead of bootdevice, because 'device' is overused,
>         is everywhere in U-Boot, can be confused with udevice
>     - bootmeth - because 'method' is too vanilla, appears 1300 times in
>         U-Boot
> """
>
> SO I think we should change it to bootmeth(s) indeed.

Ah, thank you for the link, that is helpful.

I've done the global rename, made this into a series here:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240604-bootmeth-typos-v2-0-821683a95aaf@baylibre.com

>
> Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz at cherry.de>
>
> Thanks,
> Quentin


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