Messages in this thread | | | From | Tony Prisk <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH 1/1] Add Wondermedia Technologies (wmt) to docs/devicetree/vendor-bindings.txt | Date | Thu, 19 Jul 2012 04:56:06 +0000 |
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Given that there have been no replies to this thread, and the restart patch has now been accepted using 'wmt' as the vendor namespace - would it be safe to assume we should formalize this in the vendor-bindings.txt?
I'd like to try and have basic device tree support added for the next merge window (or this one if it all goes well :) ), but it relies on the vendor binding being formalized.
Regards,
Tony P
> -----Original Message----- > From: linux-arm-kernel-bounces@lists.infradead.org [mailto:linux-arm-kernel-bounces@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of Alexey > Charkov > Sent: Wednesday, 18 July 2012 1:31 a.m. > To: vt8500-wm8505-linux-kernel@googlegroups.com > Cc: Tony Prisk; devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org; Russell King; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add Wondermedia Technologies (wmt) to docs/devicetree/vendor-bindings.txt > > 2012/7/17 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>: > > It would also be helpful to describe why the specific string is used here. > > Normally we use the stock ticker symbol and "wmt" refers to Wal-Mart, > > which would be unlikely but not impossible to produce their own hardware > > in the future. The same thing applies to "via", which is VIACOM. The symbol > > for VIA technologies is "2388.TW", but that is not particularly descriptive > > or well-known. > > > > Maybe someone on the devicetree-discuss mailing list has a better > > suggestion. I think using "via" is probably the best compromise, as > > it's a well-known name and most of the components of the wondermedia > > chips were first made by VIA anyway. > > In fact, "wmt" is the name that the vendor itself uses in their GPL > code (they also use mach-wmt as the arch-specific folder name). I > believe that we could just as well use the full "wondermedia" word to > avoid possible confusion, in case "wmt" is unacceptable for any > reason. > > Best, > Alexey > > _______________________________________________ > linux-arm-kernel mailing list > linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel
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