On 09/24/2013 12:47 PM, Thierry Reding wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:30:08AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote: >> On 09/24/2013 02:51 AM, Thierry Reding wrote: >>> Chunghwa Picture Tubes Ltd. isn't listed on the stock exchange >>> and just Chunghwa is too generic, so use the official >>> abbreviation "CPTT" as the vendor prefix. >> >> cptt is not very mnemonic. If plain "chungwa" is too generic >> (could you expand upon that?), would "chungwapt" be better? > > Well, there are Chunghwa Post and Chunghwa Telecom. I guess none > of these make devices that would ever need to be represented in a > device tree, but you never know. > > I'm having some trouble understanding the criteria on how to choose > a good vendor prefix. I don't think there are any hard/fast rules, which may be the problem! > As I mentioned in another subthread I remember some discussion that > concluded that the stock symbol should be used if one existed. > That's not the case for Chunghwa so I looked for some sort of > specific abbreviation. cptt is what Chunghwa Picture Tubes uses > for their website (http://www.cptt.com.tw) and seemed like a good > fit. I guess if I search Google for "cptt", the right website is the second hit, so perhaps it's not so bad. > If something mnemonic is preferred, perhaps we should just go with > plain "chunghwa". If it turns out that the newspaper or telecom > company ever do ship a product that needs a device tree > representation we can always come up with a variant then. That'd probably be fine too. A telecom company at least seems like it could easily start making HW, but like you say, we can deal with that then! -- 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
