From: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
To: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Brian Dodge <bdodge09@gmail.com>,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: arc vendor prefix
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 10:23:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180925152308.GA21227@bogus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180920130952.7eb8e45c@alans-desktop>
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 01:09:52PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 21:05:20 -0400
> Brian Dodge <bdodge09@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > In the linux kernel commit 91ab076e3a2f092254fe5231bbfa92b37fd52e38 the
> > vendor prefix "arctic" was added to vendor-prefixes.txt.
> >
> > The original change I authored used "arc" not "arctic", and the device
> > tree bindings were added assuming that prefix in commit
> > ce9d22573d85341c987f997461ac712e4dbe47b1
> >
> > Perhaps odeju changed the name to arctic in the patch after I created it
> > and before it was approved.
> >
> > This pairing isn't really compatible is it? Either the prefix should be
> > reverted to "arc" or the bindings (and driver source) changed to use
> > "arctic", as in "arctic,arc2c0608" vs. "arc,arc2c0608"
>
> ARC is a Synopsys registered trademark for the ARC processor line. I'm not
> sure what the right answer is but I think it might be better to keep to
> arctic to avoid confusion with arc based products.
Agreed.
Rob
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-25 15:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-19 1:05 arc vendor prefix Brian Dodge
2018-09-20 12:09 ` Alan Cox
2018-09-25 15:23 ` Rob Herring [this message]
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