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On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 04:01:59PM +0100, Florian Fainelli wrote:

> The convention for vendor prefixes is to use the stock exchange
> prefix, giving us "mips". The same problem exist for ARM Ltd. vs
> architecture and they use "arm" as a prefix unconditionaly.

ARM is traded at LSE as ARM but on Nasdaq as ARMH.  Pick one ;)

Conventions are made to be violated for good reasons ...

  Ralf