Re: [PATCH] devicetree: bindings: Document Gateworks vendor prefix

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On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Tim Harvey <tharvey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Le 10/08/2014 01:15, Tim Harvey a écrit :
>>
>>> Add Gateworks Corporation to the list of device tree vendor prefixes.
>>>
>>> Gateworks designs and manufactures single board computers designed for
>>> embedded wireless and wired network applications.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Tim Harvey <tharvey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>   Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt | 1 +
>>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
>>> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
>>> index 46a311e..803fa4f 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
>>> @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ globalscale   Globalscale Technologies, Inc.
>>>   gmt   Global Mixed-mode Technology, Inc.
>>>   google        Google, Inc.
>>>   gumstix       Gumstix, Inc.
>>> +gw     Gateworks Corporation
>>
>>
>> I would go with "gateworks" here, "gw" is usually a shorter term for
>> "gateway", and there is an actual company called "Gateway" also
>> manufacturing various types of computers.
>> --
>> Florian
>
> Hi Florian,
>
> Well... I got to the table first with Gateworks so I don't see why I
> can't take the 'gw' prefix personally. Note that I do have several
> devicetree files in arch/arm/dts/imx6-gw*.dts* already in mainline
> that use the 'gw' vendor prefix (albeit one could argue that I should
> have been asked to add 'gw' to the vendor-prefixes.txt back then, but
> that is not the way things went down).

We prefer stock ticker symbols, but GW doesn't appear to be one. So
given this is already in use and your are first, gw is fine. I've
queued this patch up.

Rob
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