On Thursday 22 August 2013 at 09:52:49, Florian Fainelli wrote: > 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. Ok, I'll provide a little patch series doing it that way. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
