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 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69A1CC433F4 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2018 12:09:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1618821529 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2018 12:09:58 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 1618821529 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1732543AbeITRxH convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2018 13:53:07 -0400 Received: from www.llwyncelyn.cymru ([82.70.14.225]:44932 "EHLO fuzix.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727710AbeITRxH (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2018 13:53:07 -0400 Received: from alans-desktop (82-70-14-226.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.70.14.226]) by fuzix.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id w8KC9rPQ006309; Thu, 20 Sep 2018 13:09:53 +0100 Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 13:09:52 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Brian Dodge Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: arc vendor prefix Message-ID: <20180920130952.7eb8e45c@alans-desktop> In-Reply-To: <527da392-9629-792b-08cc-970ffc8173ee@gmail.com> References: <527da392-9629-792b-08cc-970ffc8173ee@gmail.com> Organization: Intel Corporation X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.16.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 21:05:20 -0400 Brian Dodge 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