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

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Message-ID: <91bc4723-8e3a-4ed6-5104-36a614d6a6d2@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 7 Jan 2019 11:06:27 -0800
From:   Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>
To:     Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, corbet@....net,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Consistent capitalization of "device tree"?


+ Frank

On 1/7/19 10:37 AM, Pavel Machek 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?
> 
> Should we do something like this?
> 								Pavel
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
>     
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/overlay-notes.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/overlay-notes.txt
> index 725fb8d..cc5f507 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/overlay-notes.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/overlay-notes.txt
> @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ companion document to Documentation/devicetree/dynamic-resolution-notes.txt[1]
>  How overlays work
>  -----------------
>  
> -A Device Tree's overlay purpose is to modify the kernel's live tree, and
> +A device tree's overlay purpose is to modify the kernel's live tree, and
>  have the modification affecting the state of the kernel in a way that
>  is reflecting the changes.
>  Since the kernel mainly deals with devices, any new device node that result
> 

Not a strong opinion, but I would prefer a third option of devicetree.  That
makes it much easier to search for.

-Frank