[coreboot] [RFC] simplify names

Uwe Hermann uwe at hermann-uwe.de
Mon Dec 6 23:14:01 CET 2010


On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 12:00:08PM -0800, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> The sb700_ prefix was introduced in the early v2 tree many years ago
> because our old build system "newconfig" could not handle two files with
> the same name in different paths like /path/to/usb.c and
> /another/path/to/usb.c correctly. Only one of the files would end up
> being compiled into the final image.
> 
> Since Kconfig (actually since shortly before we switched to Kconfig) we
> don't suffer from that problem anymore. So we could drop the sb700_
> prefix from all those filenames (or, the <componentname>_ prefix in general)

Yup, I like it. I'd do it in small steps though (one SB/NB/superio at a
time) otherwise it's probably too much tedious work and will break lots of
pending patches etc.


Uwe.
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