Hello, 2013/8/22 Lars Poeschel <poeschel@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > 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. -- Florian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
