On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Stephen Warren <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/11/2013 01:29 PM, Jason Cooper wrote: >> Consumers of the Linux kernel's build products are beginning to hardcode >> the filenames of the dtbs generated. Since the dtb filenames are >> currently the dts filename s/dts/dtb/, this prevents the kernel >> community from renaming dts files as needed. > > My take is that the DTB filenames are part of the ABI, and therefore the > DTS filenames are also part of the ABI. Why would we want to rename them?
I agree with the ABI part, but for long term I think compatible strings are a better choice for the ABI than filenames. A link provides for a way to transition. Whether a platform can tolerate a filename change is really up to the platform maintainer like other ABI changes. Rob -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
