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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 06:28:45 -0800
From: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>, Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [DO NOT MERGE v6 26/37] dt-bindings: vendor-prefixes: Add smi

On 1/10/24 03:23, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 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
> 

 From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Motion:

"Controllers are marketed under the “SMI” brand,
  enterprise-grade SSDs under the "Shannon Systems" brand.
"

Guenter