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Date:   Sat, 29 Sep 2018 12:22:28 +0100
From:   Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
To:     Song Qiang <songqiang1304521@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] iio: magnetometer: Add support for PNI RM3100 9-axis
 magnetometer
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On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 08:34:02 +0800
Song Qiang <songqiang1304521@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 03:23:52PM -0700, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 09:13:40PM +0800, Song Qiang wrote:  
> > > PNI RM3100 magnetometer is a high resolution, large signal immunity
> > > magnetometer, composed of 3 single sensors and a processing chip.
> > > PNI is currently not in the vendors list, so this is also adding it.
> > >   
> 
> ...
> 
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
> > > index 41f0b97eb933..5bf3395fe9ae 100644
> > > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
> > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
> > > @@ -288,6 +288,7 @@ pine64	Pine64
> > >  pixcir  PIXCIR MICROELECTRONICS Co., Ltd
> > >  plathome	Plat'Home Co., Ltd.
> > >  plda	PLDA
> > > +pni     PNI  
> > 
> > PNI doesn't stand for something?
> >   
> 
> Hi Rob,
> 
> PNI should be 'PNI Sensor Corporation'. I saw that PLDA above mine and
> thought I should write down its abbreviation, which apparently is wrong.

To answer more directly.  If PNI itself stands for anything the company
is deliberately making it non obvious!  I had a good search to try and
find out and got nowhere...

> 
> yours,
> Song Qiang
> 
> > >  portwell	Portwell Inc.
> > >  poslab	Poslab Technology Co., Ltd.
> > >  powervr	PowerVR (deprecated, use img)  
> >