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From:   Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 47/67] media: platform: rename sunxi/ to allwinner/
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Em Tue, 15 Mar 2022 19:04:05 +0100
Jernej =C5=A0krabec <jernej.skrabec@gmail.com> escreveu:

> > > By organizing entries per vendor, while we may need to do puntual
> > > per-vendor adjustments when they rename and change IP with other
> > > vendors, the global platform Kconfig/Make will contain a single entry
> > > per vendor. I can't foresee any need to change this in the future,
> > > if we take care of keeping the entries there properly sorted.
> > >=20
> > > With regards to naming the per-vendor directory, while I do prefer to=
 have
> > > the  directories named after the vendor, and not after a vendor's nic=
k=20
> > > name, It should also be ok to use a vendor's nick name, provided that=
=20
> > > such name is meant to be used by all their current and future IP.
> > >=20
> > > Not sure if "sunxi" is actually a vendor's nick name. It sounds
> > > much likely that it is, instead, a brand name that covers their=20
> > > current media-related SoC.=20
> > >=20
> > > Can someone from the vendor shed a light on it? =20
>=20
> Allwinner (as a company) isn't directly involved in maintaining upstream =
Linux=20
> support. Drivers are provided by linux-sunxi community, sometimes by clea=
ning=20
> up vendor drivers or more often by writing them from scratch.
>=20
> That being said, "sunxi" is extensively used in vendor kernel, most often=
 it's=20
> directory name containing vendor specific driver. It's derived from SoC f=
amily=20
> name, like sun4i, sun5i, sun5i, sun50i, etc. where number is replaced wit=
h X.
>=20
> sunxi is synonym for Allwinner basically from the start. Community build=
=20
> around these SoCs is called linux-sunxi and even entry in MAINTAINERS con=
tains=20
> both names: "ARM/Allwinner sunXi SoC support". Note that sunxi is not lim=
ited=20
> to ARM SoCs. RISC-V family is called sun20i.
>=20
> Hope this helps.

Ok, so let's then keep it named as "sunxi", and place all drivers from=20
Allwinner there.

Thanks,
Mauro