linux-kernel - Re: Consistent capitalization of "device tree"?

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Message-ID: <CAL_JsqKzs4WoJoe_uCzhS3NBGfHiTQ96GkfSRhtxeah0THoVyw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 7 Jan 2019 12:45:43 -0600
From:   Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
To:     Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:     devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Consistent capitalization of "device tree"?

On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 12:37 PM Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> wrote:
>
> Is it "Device Tree" or "device tree"?
>
>  pavel@duo:/data/l/k/Documentation$ grep -r "Device Tree"  | wc -l
>  235
>  pavel@duo:/data/l/k/Documentation$ grep -r "device tree"  | wc -l
>  595
>
> I guess it would be nice to make it consistent. I guess "device tree"
> is preffered?

Well, the spec uses "devicetree" with capital 'D' as needed (titles
and start of sentences). I didn't check if we're 100% consistent
there.

> Should we do something like this?

I'll take patches, but it wouldn't be at the top of my list.

Rob