[PATCH] devicetree: Add a registry of vendor prefixes

David Brown davidb at codeaurora.org
Thu Sep 22 08:51:00 EST 2011


On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 02:53:36PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 01:38:54PM -0700, David Brown wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 09:23:25AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> > > There is no centralized listing for the in-use vendor prefixes
> > > used in compatible strings and property names.  This patch adds one.
> > > New prefixes should get added to this list to reduce the likelyhood
> > > of namespace collisions.
> > > 
> > > +powervr	Imagination Technologies
> > > +ramtron	Ramtron International
> > 
> > qcom is already used by the patches I sent out (and should be in the
> > soc tree).  I can make a patch for that, but I guess I first need to
> > ask around here for what company name we should use.
> 
> This isn't any kind of "authoritative" list, and it represents who
> makes the components, not who writes the code.  I'll use Qualcomm.

Probably Qualcomm, Inc or Qualcomm Incorporated would be best, but if
you make the change (rather than me) it matters less.

David


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