From: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Consistent capitalization of "device tree"?
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2019 12:45:43 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL_JsqKzs4WoJoe_uCzhS3NBGfHiTQ96GkfSRhtxeah0THoVyw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190107183711.GA5671@amd>
On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 12:37 PM Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
>
> Is it "Device Tree" or "device tree"?
>
> pavel@duo:/data/l/k/Documentation$ grep -r "Device Tree" | wc -l
> 235
> pavel@duo:/data/l/k/Documentation$ grep -r "device tree" | wc -l
> 595
>
> I guess it would be nice to make it consistent. I guess "device tree"
> is preffered?
Well, the spec uses "devicetree" with capital 'D' as needed (titles
and start of sentences). I didn't check if we're 100% consistent
there.
> Should we do something like this?
I'll take patches, but it wouldn't be at the top of my list.
Rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-07 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-07 18:37 Consistent capitalization of "device tree"? Pavel Machek
2019-01-07 18:44 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-01-07 18:45 ` Rob Herring [this message]
2019-01-08 1:09 ` Frank Rowand
2019-01-07 19:06 ` Frank Rowand
2019-01-07 19:24 ` Pavel Machek
2019-01-08 4:49 ` Frank Rowand
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