Re: [PATCH] of: add vendor prefix for Microchip Technology Inc

[Lars Poeschel <poeschel@lemonage.de>]

On Thursday 22 August 2013 at 09:52:49, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 2013/8/22 Lars Poeschel <poeschel@lemonage.de>:
> > On Wednesday 21 August 2013 at 19:40:56, Stephen Warren wrote:
> >> On 08/21/2013 09:19 AM, Lars Poeschel wrote:
> >> > Trivial patch to add Microchip Technology Inc. to the list
> >> > of devicetree vendor prefixes, as it is already used in
> >> > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio-mcp23s08.txt
> >> 
> >> Oh dear. Perhaps it can be legacy-ified...
> >> 
> >> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
> >> > 
> >> > +mcp        Microchip Technology Inc.
> >> 
> >> If I saw "mcp," in a *.dts file, I wouldn't immediately think
> >> "Microchip".
> >> 
> >> Their stock ticker appears to be MCHP, so I'd suggest either "mchp"
> >> or "microchip" instead; that latter being my personal preference.
> > 
> > Any other opinions?
> > If there are other voices who don't like it, we can change it. There
> > is no in-tree dts file using this yet.
> > How can a renaming be done? Would that involve changing the drivers
> > (and module) name too? Or do we have the difference between "mcp" in
> > the drivers name and "microchip" for device tree properties? In the
> > latter case, I'd vote against it - if anyone cares. ;-)
> 
> We have recently had an interesting debate for the Broadcom vendor
> prefix, so in light of this debate, I would go for the full name
> directly and use "microchip". That said, this does not necessarily
> mean that drivers containing "mcp" in their files/filenames must also
> be renamed.

Ok, I'll provide a little patch series doing it that way.