Subject: [PATCH] arm: Add basic support for new Marvell Armada SoC family

From: [email-masked] (Arnd Bergmann)
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 15:28:26 +0000

On Wednesday 16 May 2012, Lior Amsalem wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks for the list, very helpful!
> > 
> > So do you think it makes sense to put all of these into mach-orion?
> >
> Well, Orion is old and seems like not the best name for a directory to include 
> all the new platforms.
> We are discussing it internally as well and I'll update with our suggestion.

The name has the advantage that we have a bunch of drivers using it already:

arch/arm/plat-orion/gpio.c
arch/arm/plat-orion/irq.c
arch/arm/plat-orion/mpp.c
arch/arm/plat-orion/pcie.c
arch/arm/plat-orion/time.c
drivers/mtd/nand/orion_nand.c
drivers/spi/spi-orion.c
drivers/usb/host/ehci-orion.c
drivers/watchdog/orion_wdt.c

AFAICT, those are shared between most of those socs, and I would not want
to change the code in them to the new name. If we change the directory
name to something completely different, it no longer matches the driver
names.

	Arnd