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Subject: Re: Consistent capitalization of "device tree"?
To:     Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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On 1/7/19 10:45 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 12:37 PM Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
>>
>> Is it "Device Tree" or "device tree"?
>>
>>  pavel@duo:/data/l/k/Documentation$ grep -r "Device Tree"  | wc -l
>>  235
>>  pavel@duo:/data/l/k/Documentation$ grep -r "device tree"  | wc -l
>>  595
>>
>> I guess it would be nice to make it consistent. I guess "device tree"
>> is preffered?
> 
> Well, the spec uses "devicetree" with capital 'D' as needed (titles
> and start of sentences). I didn't check if we're 100% consistent
> there.

For reference, the specification is at:

https://www.devicetree.org/specifications/


> 
>> Should we do something like this?
> 
> I'll take patches, but it wouldn't be at the top of my list.
> 
> Rob
>