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

From: Piergiorgio Beruto <piergiorgio.beruto@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
	Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de>,
	mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr, sudheer.mogilappagari@intel.com,
	sbhatta@marvell.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	wangjie125@huawei.com, corbet@lwn.net, lkp@intel.com,
	gal@nvidia.com, gustavoars@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 5/5] drivers/net/phy: add driver for the onsemi NCN26000 10BASE-T1S PHY
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2023 15:21:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y7wi3qwG3b6i0x7T@gvm01> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y7wXO7x7Wh7+Hw/Z@lunn.ch>

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