[PATCH 00/19] Rename Samsung and Exynos to lowercase

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk at kernel.org
Sat Jan 4 15:14:28 UTC 2020


On Fri, Jan 03, 2020 at 02:25:41PM -0700, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 10:11 AM Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk at kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > The "Samsung" and "Exynos" names are written inconsistently in Linux
> > kernel sources. Sometimes all uppercase (as SAMSUNG), sometimes
> > lowercase with capital letter (as Samsung).
> >
> > This patchset tries to unify this towards "Samsung" and "Exynos"
> > versions because:
> >
> > 1. "SAMSUNG" and "EXYNOS" are not abbreviations but regular trademarked
> >     names.  Therefore they should be written with lowercase letters starting
> >     with capital letter.
> >
> > 2. The lowercase "Exynos" name is promoted by its manufacturer Samsung
> >    Electronics Co., Ltd., in advertisement materials and on website [1].
> >
> > 3. Although advertisement materials usually use uppercase "SAMSUNG", the
> >    lowercase version is used in all legal aspects (e.g. on Wikipedia [2]
> >    and in privacy/legal statements on Samsung site [3]).
> >
> > Patches are independent of each other so I expect they will go through
> > each maintainer's tree. Optionally let me know - I'll take it then
> > through samsung-soc tree.
> >
> > [1] https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/exynos/
> > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung
> > [3] https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/privacy-global/
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Krzysztof
> >
> > Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab at kernel.org>
> > Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt at kernel.org>
> > Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> > Cc: Kukjin Kim <kgene at kernel.org>
> > Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk at kernel.org>
> > Cc: Kamil Debski <kamil at wypas.org>
> > Cc: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki at samsung.com>
> > Cc: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon at ti.com>
> > Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet at lwn.net>
> > Cc: Russell King <linux at armlinux.org.uk>
> > Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie at samsung.com>
> > Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at linaro.org>
> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
> > Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>
> > Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft.net>
> > Cc: MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham at samsung.com>
> > Cc: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park at samsung.com>
> > Cc: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi at samsung.com>
> > Cc: Inki Dae <inki.dae at samsung.com>
> > Cc: Joonyoung Shim <jy0922.shim at samsung.com>
> > Cc: Seung-Woo Kim <sw0312.kim at samsung.com>
> > Cc: David Airlie <airlied at linux.ie>
> > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch>
> > Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org>
> > Cc: Byungho An <bh74.an at samsung.com>
> > Cc: Girish K S <ks.giri at samsung.com>
> > Cc: Vipul Pandya <vipul.pandya at samsung.com>
> > Cc: Jingoo Han <jingoohan1 at gmail.com>
> > Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com>
> > Cc: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray at arm.com>
> > Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas at google.com>
> > Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard at kernel.org>
> > Cc: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens at csie.org>
> > Cc: Sangbeom Kim <sbkim73 at samsung.com>
> > Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood at gmail.com>
> > Cc: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
> > Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang at intel.com>
> > Cc: Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria at verdurent.com>
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> > Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby at suse.com>
> > Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi at kernel.org>
> > Cc: Alan Stern <stern at rowland.harvard.edu>
> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> > Cc: linux-media at vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: devicetree at vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> > Cc: linux-samsung-soc at vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: linux-doc at vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: linux-pm at vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: linux-crypto at vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> > Cc: netdev at vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: linux-pci at vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: linux-serial at vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: linux-usb at vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: linux-fbdev at vger.kernel.org
> >
> > Krzysztof Kozlowski (19):
> >   arm64: dts: exynos: Rename Samsung and Exynos to lowercase
> >   ARM: dts: samsung: Rename Samsung and Exynos to lowercase
> >   ARM: samsung: Rename Samsung and Exynos to lowercase
> >   soc: samsung: Rename Samsung and Exynos to lowercase
> >   thermal: exynos: Rename Samsung and Exynos to lowercase
> >   media: samsung: Rename Samsung and Exynos to lowercase
> >   usb: exynos: Rename Samsung and Exynos to lowercase
> >   memory: samsung: Rename Exynos to lowercase
> >   phy: exynos: Rename Exynos to lowercase
> >   clocksource/drivers/exynos_mct: Rename Exynos to lowercase
> >   crypto: exynos-rng - Rename Exynos to lowercase
> >   devfreq: exynos: Rename Exynos to lowercase
> >   drm/exynos: Rename Exynos to lowercase
> >   video: exynos: Rename Exynos to lowercase
> >   pci: exynos: Rename Exynos to lowercase
> >   serial: samsung: Rename Exynos to lowercase
> >   mfd: samsung: Rename Samsung to lowercase
> >   net: ethernet: sxgbe: Rename Samsung to lowercase
> >   regulator: samsung: Rename Samsung to lowercase
> >
> >  .../bindings/media/exynos-jpeg-codec.txt      |  2 +-
> >  .../devicetree/bindings/media/exynos5-gsc.txt |  2 +-
> >  .../bindings/media/samsung-fimc.txt           |  2 +-
> >  .../bindings/media/samsung-mipi-csis.txt      |  2 +-
> >  .../devicetree/bindings/phy/samsung-phy.txt   |  6 ++--
> 
> Please split bindings to a separate patch.

Sure, let me resend.

Best regards,
Krzysztof



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