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

[Stephen Warren <swarren-3lzwWm7+Weoh9ZMKESR00Q@public.gmane.org>]

On 09/24/2013 12:47 PM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> 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.

I don't think there are any hard/fast rules, which may be the problem!

> 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.

I guess if I search Google for "cptt", the right website is the second
hit, so perhaps it's not so bad.

> 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.

That'd probably be fine too. A telecom company at least seems like it
could easily start making HW, but like you say, we can deal with that
then!
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