From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C305FC54EBD for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2023 14:24:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229711AbjAIOYp (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2023 09:24:45 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:54474 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229455AbjAIOYo (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2023 09:24:44 -0500 Received: from vps0.lunn.ch (vps0.lunn.ch [156.67.10.101]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2799864DC; Mon, 9 Jan 2023 06:24:40 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lunn.ch; s=20171124; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Disposition:Content-Type:MIME-Version: References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:From:Sender:Reply-To:Subject: Date:Message-ID:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:References; bh=kx8wEP7ydR7MO7JXGJeVfKoITwgD6HJfTtcypWjw9dQ=; b=WNIknlAEQx5/7jHDl6MY5VdpPT zzDfEdnmbQYPSLB2Exxr/7bXT4YOLil3R7IUJYUwSABjSijbVv52ph8Wc5TMyiPthjYQ0Vdct4T80 KJrB4yEcDioB/gyFqyIgNY+89LILEjggYikue9xFF3cOCO9uSdROhC4iK7VkB5NcwKMI=; Received: from andrew by vps0.lunn.ch with local (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1pEt4c-001Zip-I4; Mon, 09 Jan 2023 15:24:26 +0100 Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2023 15:24:26 +0100 From: Andrew Lunn To: Piergiorgio Beruto Cc: Heiner Kallweit , Russell King , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Oleksij Rempel , mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr, sudheer.mogilappagari@intel.com, sbhatta@marvell.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, wangjie125@huawei.com, corbet@lwn.net, lkp@intel.com, gal@nvidia.com, gustavoars@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 5/5] drivers/net/phy: add driver for the onsemi NCN26000 10BASE-T1S PHY Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 03:21:18PM +0100, Piergiorgio Beruto wrote: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 02:31:39PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > Linux tends to ignore Marketing, because Marketing tends to change its > > mind every 6 months. Also, Linux ignores companies being bought and > > sold, changing their name. So this PHY will forever be called whatever > > name you give it here. The vitesse PHY driver is an example of > > this. They got bought by Microsemi, and then Microchip bought > > Microsemi. The PHY driver is still called vitesse.c. > > > > How about using the legal name, 'ON Semiconductor > > Corporation' > That's perfectly clear Andrew, I can certainly see why Linux should > ignore marketing. > > Sill, 'ON Semiconductor' is the old company name, the product datasheet can be > found at www.onsemi.com. I would honestly feel more comfortable using > the current company name. If you really want the first 'o' to be > capitalized, then so be it. Hopefully people will not notice :-) I would prefer it was capitalised, to make it uniform with all the other entries. Andrew