From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>,
dinguyen@altera.com, dinh.linux@gmail.com,
Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>,
Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] of: add vendor prefix for Altera Corp.
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:10:28 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130730061028.GM29970@voom.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130728044125.60F3A3E08FE@localhost>
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On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 10:41:25PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:05:26 -0600, Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> > On 07/26/2013 01:39 PM, dinguyen@altera.com wrote:
> >
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
> >
> > > +altr Altera Corp.
> >
> > In the context of Marvel(?) wanting to change between a longer and
> > stock-ticker vendor name, there was some discussion re: whether we had
> > decided not to use stock tickers any more. Is there still consensus that
> > we should? If so, I have no problem with this patch, but I wanted to
> > make sure everyone was on the same page.
>
> Stock ticker names are just fine by me. But once set they should not
> change.
The old recommendation from OF working group was that vendor prefixes
could be either ticker symbols in all caps (e.g. "AAPL"), or some
other string in lower case.
We've mostly only used the second option.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-26 19:39 [PATCH] of: add vendor prefix for Altera Corp dinguyen
2013-07-26 20:05 ` Stephen Warren
2013-07-28 4:41 ` Grant Likely
2013-07-30 6:10 ` David Gibson [this message]
2013-08-06 16:18 ` Mark Rutland
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