From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Olof Johansson Subject: Re: [PATCH] of: add vendor prefix for Honeywell Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 07:12:38 -0800 Message-ID: References: <1390685924-11877-1-git-send-email-marek@goldelico.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Rob Herring , Belisko Marek , NeilBrown Cc: Rob Herring , Pawel Moll , Mark Rutland , Ian Campbell , Kumar Gala , Rob Landley , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On February 3, 2014 6:46:58 AM PST, Rob Herring wrote: >On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Belisko Marek > wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Olof Johansson >wrote: >>> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Marek Belisko >wrote: >>>> Signed-off-by: Marek Belisko >>>> --- >>>> Documentation/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 3f900cd..b14c617 100644 >>>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt >>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt >>>> @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ gmt Global Mixed-mode Technology, Inc. >>>> gumstix Gumstix, Inc. >>>> haoyu Haoyu Microelectronic Co. Ltd. >>>> hisilicon Hisilicon Limited. >>>> +honeywell Honeywell >>> >>> The norm has usually been to use the the stock ticker symbol of a >>> public company if it is available. In other words, I think the >prefix >>> here should be 'hon', since Honeywell is a publicly traded company >>> under that ticker. >> OK I didn't know about that. I just pick name from here: >> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843.txt >> So we need to update also compatible property in mentioned file. > >It appears this is already used in omap4-sdp dts for some time, so I'm >inclined to leave it as honeywell to avoid breaking old dtbs. Fair enough. It would be good to find a way to avoid too much ambiguity around prefixes longer term but that's a discussion for another day. -Olof -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.