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

[Florian Fainelli]

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
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