From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com ([217.140.96.50]:42140 "EHLO cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754741Ab3HFIjR (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Aug 2013 04:39:17 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 09:39:01 +0100 From: Mark Rutland Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCHv2] of: add vendor prefix for Altera Corp. Message-ID: <20130806083901.GA23111@e106331-lin.cambridge.arm.com> References: <1375735699-7056-1-git-send-email-dinguyen@altera.com> <5FD2B856-610A-4D25-85F4-0CE30EB86323@codeaurora.org> <1375736573.7277.7.camel@linux-builds1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1375736573.7277.7.camel@linux-builds1> Sender: devicetree-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Dinh Nguyen , Grant Likely Cc: Kumar Gala , David Gibson , "dinh.linux@gmail.com" , "rob.herring@calxeda.com" , Pawel Moll , Stephen Warren , Ian Campbell , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" List-ID: On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 10:02:53PM +0100, Dinh Nguyen wrote: > On Mon, 2013-08-05 at 15:50 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > > On Aug 5, 2013, at 3:48 PM, wrote: > > > > > From: Dinh Nguyen > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Dinh Nguyen > > > Cc: Grant Likely > > > Cc: Rob Herring > > > Cc: Pawel Moll > > > Cc: Mark Rutland > > > Cc: Stephen Warren > > > Cc: Ian Campbell > > > Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org > > > > > > v2: > > > - Changed altr -> ALTR > > > --- > > > .../devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt | 1 + > > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > > > > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt > > > index 366ce9b..6c2b273 100644 > > > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt > > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt > > > @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ ad Avionic Design GmbH > > > adi Analog Devices, Inc. > > > aeroflexgaisler Aeroflex Gaisler AB > > > ak Asahi Kasei Corp. > > > +ALTR Altera Corp. > > > > why all caps? we seem to have avoid doing that for almost everyone? > > CC: David Gibson > > I can't find the archived email, but this is the excerpt from v1: > > On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 10:41:25PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:05:26 -0600, Stephen Warren > 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. > > On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 16:10 +1000, David Gibson wrote: > >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. This would leave ALTR as the oddball out of all the prefixes currently in existence (of which several are *lower case* stock ticker symbols). Grant, do you have any view here? I'm happy to allow uppercase if you're happy with it. > > >We've mostly only used the second option. > ------ > > So I'm think we're going with all caps for ALTR. We've already been > using altr, so the 2nd option is colliding with the 1st option. Why is using the string you're using already (atlr) a problem? Thanks, Mark. > > > Dinh > > > > > - k > > > > > amcc Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (APM, formally AMCC) > > > apm Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (APM) > > > arm ARM Ltd. > > > -- > > > 1.7.9.5 > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in > > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > > -- > > Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. > > Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation > > > > > > > >