linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: Rename Toshiba Memory to Kioxia

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Date:   Tue, 28 Jan 2020 07:54:17 +0100
From:   Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...labora.com>
To:     Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
Cc:     Yoshio Furuyama <ytc-mb-yfuruyama7@...xia.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, vigneshr@...com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: Rename Toshiba Memory to Kioxia

On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 16:51:48 +0100
Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com> wrote:

> Hi Yoshio,
> 
> Yoshio Furuyama <ytc-mb-yfuruyama7@...xia.com> wrote on Thu, 23 Jan
> 2020 17:04:03 +0900:
> 
> > Rename Toshiba Memory to Kioxia since the company name has changed.  
> 
> I wonder how much this is a noisy change compared to its benefits
> 
> I would like more feedback. Richard, Boris, is this the first name we
> run into this situation? Ho was this handled in the past?

I don't think that's really useful. Maybe just add a comment above the
NAND_MFR_TOSHIBA definition stating that Toshiba and Kioxia ID are the
same. If Koxia starts producing new chip under the Koxia brand, new
files/structs/funcs/... can be prefixed with koxia instead of Toshiba.