Re: [PATCH] of: add vendor prefix for Microchip Technology Inc

From: Lars Poeschel
Date: Thu Aug 22 2013 - 03:47:44 EST


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. ;-)

Lars
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