From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Piergiorgio Beruto <piergiorgio.beruto@gmail.com>
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 15:24:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y7wjmu9P2TXuNMeE@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y7wi3qwG3b6i0x7T@gvm01>
On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 03:21:18PM +0100, Piergiorgio Beruto wrote:
> 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 :-)
I would prefer it was capitalised, to make it uniform with all the
other entries.
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-09 14:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-06 18:43 [PATCH v2 net-next 0/5] add PLCA RS support and onsemi NCN26000 Piergiorgio Beruto
2023-01-06 18:44 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 1/5] net/ethtool: add netlink interface for the PLCA RS Piergiorgio Beruto
2023-01-07 17:29 ` Andrew Lunn
2023-01-06 18:44 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 2/5] drivers/net/phy: add the link modes for the 10BASE-T1S Ethernet PHY Piergiorgio Beruto
2023-01-07 17:31 ` Andrew Lunn
2023-01-06 18:45 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 3/5] drivers/net/phy: add connection between ethtool and phylib for PLCA Piergiorgio Beruto
2023-01-07 17:37 ` Andrew Lunn
2023-01-08 23:48 ` Piergiorgio Beruto
2023-01-06 18:45 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 4/5] drivers/net/phy: add helpers to get/set PLCA configuration Piergiorgio Beruto
2023-01-07 18:07 ` Andrew Lunn
2023-01-08 23:50 ` Piergiorgio Beruto
2023-01-06 18:45 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 5/5] drivers/net/phy: add driver for the onsemi NCN26000 10BASE-T1S PHY Piergiorgio Beruto
2023-01-07 18:23 ` Andrew Lunn
2023-01-08 23:57 ` Piergiorgio Beruto
2023-01-09 13:31 ` Andrew Lunn
2023-01-09 14:21 ` Piergiorgio Beruto
2023-01-09 14:24 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2023-01-09 17:12 ` Piergiorgio Beruto
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