Re: [PATCH 0/4] kho: rename "scratch" to "bootmem"

Gregory Price <[email protected]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:15:49 -0400

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On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 09:52:31AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 10:42:00AM -0400, Gregory Price wrote:
> > 
> > Is there a non-verbiage reason to justify these changes?  Living with
> > "scratch" seems better than potentially breaking folks.
> 
> I don't think these are the first breaking changes. And if the changes 
> are fine, then that means more breaking changes are fine, too. So why is 
> this upstream at all until the design is settled?
> 

Surely we should not break deployments for the sake of renaming
something that is very arguably already aptly named?

~Gregory