Re: [PATCH 2/3] of: Add Chunghwa Picture Tubes Ltd. vendor prefix

[Thierry Reding <thierry.reding-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:30:08AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 09/24/2013 02:51 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > Chunghwa Picture Tubes Ltd. isn't listed on the stock exchange and just
> > Chunghwa is too generic, so use the official abbreviation "CPTT" as the
> > vendor prefix.
> 
> cptt is not very mnemonic. If plain "chungwa" is too generic (could you
> expand upon that?), would "chungwapt" be better?

Well, there are Chunghwa Post and Chunghwa Telecom. I guess none of
these make devices that would ever need to be represented in a device
tree, but you never know.

I'm having some trouble understanding the criteria on how to choose a
good vendor prefix. As I mentioned in another subthread I remember some
discussion that concluded that the stock symbol should be used if one
existed. That's not the case for Chunghwa so I looked for some sort of
specific abbreviation. cptt is what Chunghwa Picture Tubes uses for
their website (http://www.cptt.com.tw) and seemed like a good fit. If
something mnemonic is preferred, perhaps we should just go with plain
"chunghwa". If it turns out that the newspaper or telecom company ever
do ship a product that needs a device tree representation we can always
come up with a variant then.

Thierry

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