Re: DTS question

[Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@pikatech.com>]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:40:43 +1100
"David Gibson" <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:

> >>> Note that a stock symbol needs to be written in uppercase; in
> >>> lowercase, it is just a random name that has no collision
> >>> protection.  
> >>
> >> Um.. bit too late for that.  AFAIK, uppercase has been used by
> >> *no-one* for stock ticker derived vendor IDs.  
> >
> > No, it's used quite a lot actually.  Not in DTS files though ;-)  
> 
> Sorry, yes, I was meaning specifically in recent, flattened-device
> tree practice (which is the context in which the "use stock ticker"
> recommendation has been made.
> 
> > It doesn't matter a lot, lowercase names are perfectly valid, you
> > just don't get the nice non-collision reassurance you would get if
> > you used a name in one of the namespaces reserved for that purpose.
> >
> > It's probably best to not use an uppercase stock symbol if you don't
> > have approval from the company in question anyway -- we use a
> > lowercase name (i.e. in the "free-for-all" space) for our messed up
> > bindings, the companies use an uppercase name (in the stock-ticker
> > namespace) for their own, incompatible, messed-up bindings, and
> > everyone is happy.  Or something like that.  

Ack, now I am confused. Should I use lower or upper case? 

To be honest the upper case looks weird since none of the other names
have any uppercase characters.

Cheers,
   Sean