From: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Brian Dodge <bdodge09@gmail.com>
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: arc vendor prefix
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 13:09:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180920130952.7eb8e45c@alans-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <527da392-9629-792b-08cc-970ffc8173ee@gmail.com>
On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 21:05:20 -0400
Brian Dodge <bdodge09@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the linux kernel commit 91ab076e3a2f092254fe5231bbfa92b37fd52e38 the
> vendor prefix "arctic" was added to vendor-prefixes.txt.
>
> The original change I authored used "arc" not "arctic", and the device
> tree bindings were added assuming that prefix in commit
> ce9d22573d85341c987f997461ac712e4dbe47b1
>
> Perhaps odeju changed the name to arctic in the patch after I created it
> and before it was approved.
>
> This pairing isn't really compatible is it? Either the prefix should be
> reverted to "arc" or the bindings (and driver source) changed to use
> "arctic", as in "arctic,arc2c0608" vs. "arc,arc2c0608"
ARC is a Synopsys registered trademark for the ARC processor line. I'm not
sure what the right answer is but I think it might be better to keep to
arctic to avoid confusion with arc based products.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-20 12:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-19 1:05 arc vendor prefix Brian Dodge
2018-09-20 12:09 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2018-09-25 15:23 ` Rob Herring
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