[PATCH] devicetree: Add a registry of vendor prefixes

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Thu Sep 22 11:56:35 EST 2011


On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 4:51 PM, David Brown <davidb at codeaurora.org> wrote:
> 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.

Done.

g.


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