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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 08:03:03 -0700
From: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
To: Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>
Cc: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: vendor-prefixes: Add missing prefixes used
 in compatibles
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On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 05:51:37PM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 09:38:45AM -0700, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 08:59:56AM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 08:58:29PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> > > > +  "^calao,.*":
> > > > +    description: CALAO Systems SAS
> > > >    "^calaosystems,.*":
> > > >      description: CALAO Systems SAS
> > > 
> > > > +  "^IBM,.*":
> > > > +    description: International Business Machines (IBM)
> > > >    "^ibm,.*":
> > > >      description: International Business Machines (IBM)
> > > 
> > > These ones add duplicates with no indication of which one is to be used
> > > going forward. Why not mark one as deprecated?
> > 
> > Because I couldn't decide which... It's a mixture with no clear pattern 
> > of on what or when each one is used. Power is kind of special.
> 
>  That might be true for ibm, but is it true for calao systems?
>  The website appears to now be something to do with Korean gambling, but
>  the twitter remains and looks to have produced arm sbcs:
>  https://twitter.com/calaosystems?lang=en

I used this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calao_Systems

The company went bankrupt in 2016. ST based systems used one prefix and 
Atmel based systems used the other. Which do I pick to deprecate? I'm 
not expecting any new boards either. 

Rob