Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 5/5] drivers/net/phy: add driver for the onsemi NCN26000 10BASE-T1S PHY

Piergiorgio Beruto
2023-01-09T14:21:34Z

On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 02:31:39PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> Linux tends to ignore Marketing, because Marketing tends to change its
> mind every 6 months. Also, Linux ignores companies being bought and
> sold, changing their name. So this PHY will forever be called whatever
> name you give it here. The vitesse PHY driver is an example of
> this. They got bought by Microsemi, and then Microchip bought
> Microsemi. The PHY driver is still called vitesse.c.
>
> How about using the legal name, 'ON Semiconductor
> Corporation'
That's perfectly clear Andrew, I can certainly see why Linux should
ignore marketing.

Sill, 'ON Semiconductor' is the old company name, the product datasheet can be
found at www.onsemi.com. I would honestly feel more comfortable using
the current company name. If you really want the first 'o' to be
capitalized, then so be it. Hopefully people will not notice :-)

Thanks,
Piergiorgio