On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 10:17 AM Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 6 Aug 2018, Rob Herring wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 4:03 PM Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Yes, to answer your question in the subject...
>
> i don't know enough about the standards for node names, but here's a
> list i collected in my travels -- i will leave it to others higher up
> the food chain to decide what sort of cleanup is merited (repitition
> from earlier post, and a few new entries thrown in):
The purpose of the list is not to collect what folks have been using by chance.
>
> gpio-controller
'gpio' is the defined name here. Yes, it's not consistent, but oh well.
> {l2-,l3-,}cache-controller
Cache level is a property and shouldn't be needed in the node name.
But sometimes we have several caches at the same level with no
unit-address to make the names unique.
> video,video-scaler
> qos
> vram
> gadget
Linux term.
> spi[-]flash
> usb[-]phy
> usb[-]hub
Why allow/endorse 2 forms?
> mtd_dataflash
mtd is a Linuxism. Plus, this one looked like just copy-n-paste a
bunch of times on at91 platforms.
> i2c-controller
> spi-controller
i2c and spi are the defined names for these.
> led_pins
Not sure what this is supposed to be.
>
> rday
>
> p.s. i submit that the entry "cpus" should be deleted from that list,
> in the same way that you would not include the node names "aliases" or
> "chosen" in that list. but that's just me.
Yes, perhaps.
Rob
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