From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from yow.seanm.ca (toronto-hs-216-138-233-67.s-ip.magma.ca [216.138.233.67]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F1441DDF23 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:42:23 +1100 (EST) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:42:20 -0400 From: Sean MacLennan To: "David Gibson" Subject: Re: DTS question Message-ID: <20080326234220.7711f047@lappy.seanm.ca> In-Reply-To: <20080326234043.GC8005@localhost.localdomain> References: <20080320173302.7075a1d9@lappy.seanm.ca> <20080320181926.2ff7e297@lappy.seanm.ca> <47E2E4A2.9000801@freescale.com> <20080321001236.4e37bba4@lappy.seanm.ca> <20080321010941.5e4bf9d4@lappy.seanm.ca> <20080321070512.GA29010@localhost.localdomain> <22b5aa51cfbcba3072020c4897206473@kernel.crashing.org> <20080325221209.GB8281@localhost.localdomain> <20080326234043.GC8005@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Scott Wood , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:40:43 +1100 "David Gibson" 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