From: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
To: Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>,
Belisko Marek <marek.belisko@gmail.com>,
NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk>,
Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
"devicetree@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] of: add vendor prefix for Honeywell
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 07:12:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b3bf182e-6330-488a-a7de-2a47b579606e@email.android.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL_Jsq++pxMmJrn+=dreFJMCT2EUxbOuhrGetBecUTb2ax4YOw@mail.gmail.com>
On February 3, 2014 6:46:58 AM PST, Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Belisko Marek
><marek.belisko@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
>wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Marek Belisko <marek@goldelico.com>
>wrote:
>>>> Signed-off-by: Marek Belisko <marek@goldelico.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt | 1 +
>>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
>b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
>>>> index 3f900cd..b14c617 100644
>>>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
>>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
>>>> @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ gmt Global Mixed-mode Technology, Inc.
>>>> gumstix Gumstix, Inc.
>>>> haoyu Haoyu Microelectronic Co. Ltd.
>>>> hisilicon Hisilicon Limited.
>>>> +honeywell Honeywell
>>>
>>> The norm has usually been to use the the stock ticker symbol of a
>>> public company if it is available. In other words, I think the
>prefix
>>> here should be 'hon', since Honeywell is a publicly traded company
>>> under that ticker.
>> OK I didn't know about that. I just pick name from here:
>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843.txt
>> So we need to update also compatible property in mentioned file.
>
>It appears this is already used in omap4-sdp dts for some time, so I'm
>inclined to leave it as honeywell to avoid breaking old dtbs.
Fair enough.
It would be good to find a way to avoid too much ambiguity around prefixes longer term but that's a discussion for another day.
-Olof
--
Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-03 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-25 21:38 [PATCH] of: add vendor prefix for Honeywell Marek Belisko
2014-01-31 18:20 ` Rob Herring
2014-01-31 18:53 ` Olof Johansson
2014-01-31 21:46 ` Belisko Marek
2014-02-03 14:46 ` Rob Herring
2014-02-03 15:12 ` Olof Johansson [this message]
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