From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Warren Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] of: Add Chunghwa Picture Tubes Ltd. vendor prefix Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 13:02:38 -0600 Message-ID: <5241E1CE.6010209@wwwdotorg.org> References: <1380012714-19073-1-git-send-email-treding@nvidia.com> <1380012714-19073-2-git-send-email-treding@nvidia.com> <5241CC20.1010800@wwwdotorg.org> <20130924184754.GC9911@mithrandir> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20130924184754.GC9911@mithrandir> Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Thierry Reding Cc: Rob Herring , Pawel Moll , Mark Rutland , Ian Campbell , devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.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! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html