Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752412Ab3HVJEF (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Aug 2013 05:04:05 -0400 Received: from smtp1.goneo.de ([212.90.139.80]:37620 "EHLO smtp1.goneo.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751988Ab3HVJEB (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Aug 2013 05:04:01 -0400 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.832 From: Lars Poeschel To: Florian Fainelli Subject: Re: [PATCH] of: add vendor prefix for Microchip Technology Inc Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 11:03:49 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.10-2-amd64; KDE/4.8.4; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Stephen Warren , Rob Herring , Pawel Moll , Mark Rutland , Ian Campbell , Rob Landley , Grant Likely , Arnd Bergmann , Linus Walleij , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" References: <201308211719.57748.poeschel@lemonage.de> <201308220947.29715.poeschel@lemonage.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201308221103.49328.poeschel@lemonage.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1884 Lines: 42 On Thursday 22 August 2013 at 09:52:49, Florian Fainelli wrote: > Hello, > > 2013/8/22 Lars Poeschel : > > On Wednesday 21 August 2013 at 19:40:56, Stephen Warren wrote: > >> On 08/21/2013 09:19 AM, Lars Poeschel wrote: > >> > Trivial patch to add Microchip Technology Inc. to the list > >> > of devicetree vendor prefixes, as it is already used in > >> > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio-mcp23s08.txt > >> > >> Oh dear. Perhaps it can be legacy-ified... > >> > >> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt > >> > > >> > +mcp Microchip Technology Inc. > >> > >> If I saw "mcp," in a *.dts file, I wouldn't immediately think > >> "Microchip". > >> > >> Their stock ticker appears to be MCHP, so I'd suggest either "mchp" > >> or "microchip" instead; that latter being my personal preference. > > > > Any other opinions? > > If there are other voices who don't like it, we can change it. There > > is no in-tree dts file using this yet. > > How can a renaming be done? Would that involve changing the drivers > > (and module) name too? Or do we have the difference between "mcp" in > > the drivers name and "microchip" for device tree properties? In the > > latter case, I'd vote against it - if anyone cares. ;-) > > We have recently had an interesting debate for the Broadcom vendor > prefix, so in light of this debate, I would go for the full name > directly and use "microchip". That said, this does not necessarily > mean that drivers containing "mcp" in their files/filenames must also > be renamed. Ok, I'll provide a little patch series doing it that way. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/