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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 12:23:37 +0100
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To: Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [DO NOT MERGE v6 26/37] dt-bindings: vendor-prefixes: Add smi

Hi Conor,

On Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 7:06 PM Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 05:23:23PM +0900, Yoshinori Sato wrote:
> > Add Silicon Mortion Technology Corporation

Motion

> > https://www.siliconmotion.com/
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>
> > ---
> >  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 94ed63d9f7de..a338bdd743ab 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml
> > @@ -1283,6 +1283,8 @@ patternProperties:
> >      description: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
> >    "^smartlabs,.*":
> >      description: SmartLabs LLC
> > +  "^smi,.*":
> > +    description: Silicon Motion Technology Corporation
>
> How come "smi" is used for a company with this name?
> Why is it not something like SMTC? There's probably some history here
> that I am unaware of.

See Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/sm501fb.txt
The stock ticker is "SIMO", though.
https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/simo

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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