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

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Message-ID: <4d4cf1b1-0966-305d-9bf3-e9dc84d6e8c6@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 7 Jan 2019 17:09:40 -0800
From:   Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>
To:     Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, 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>,
        Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Consistent capitalization of "device tree"?

On 1/7/19 10:45 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
> 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.

For reference, the specification is at:

https://www.devicetree.org/specifications/


> 
>> Should we do something like this?
> 
> I'll take patches, but it wouldn't be at the top of my list.
> 
> Rob
>