[PATCH] dt-bindings: vendor-prefixes: add Densitron

Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Thu Jul 21 12:34:23 UTC 2022


Hi Marek,

On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 02:24:57PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 7/21/22 07:41, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 05:03:27AM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >> Densitron is a manufacturer of LCD panels.
> >> https://www.densitron.com
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
> >> Cc: Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org>
> >> Cc: Jagan Teki <jagan at amarulasolutions.com>
> >> Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>
> >> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
> >> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt at kernel.org>
> >> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam at ravnborg.org>
> >> Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding at gmail.com>
> >> ---
> >>   Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml | 2 ++
> >>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml
> >> index 88859dd4040ee..6277240536b44 100644
> >> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml
> >> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml
> >> @@ -312,6 +312,8 @@ patternProperties:
> >>       description: Dell Inc.
> >>     "^delta,.*":
> >>       description: Delta Electronics, Inc.
> >> +  "^densitron,.*":
> > 
> > How about "dsn", to follow the practice of using stock names as vendor
> > prefixes ?
> 
> Is there any benefit to that ? All I can see is that it's making DTS 
> less clear and more difficult to read. It is easy to map "densitron" to 
> "densitron" when it is spelled out like so in the DT, but it sure isn't 
> immediately obvious that "dsn" means "densitron" without extra look up. 
> And even that extra look up of "dsn" does not return densitron, but some 
> woodworking company and other totally unrelated results.

I don't know where that practice originates from, and if it's still the
recommended naming scheme these days. All I know is that it was the
recommended scheme at some point. I expect Rob will be able to tell
which name is best.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart


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