linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: vendor-prefixes: Add missing prefixes used in compatibles

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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 19:10:40 +0000
From: Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>
To: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Cc: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@...rochip.com>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: vendor-prefixes: Add missing prefixes used
 in compatibles

On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 08:03:03AM -0700, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 05:51:37PM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 09:38:45AM -0700, Rob Herring wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 08:59:56AM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 08:58:29PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> > > > > +  "^calao,.*":
> > > > > +    description: CALAO Systems SAS
> > > > >    "^calaosystems,.*":
> > > > >      description: CALAO Systems SAS
> > > > 
> > > > > +  "^IBM,.*":
> > > > > +    description: International Business Machines (IBM)
> > > > >    "^ibm,.*":
> > > > >      description: International Business Machines (IBM)
> > > > 
> > > > These ones add duplicates with no indication of which one is to be used
> > > > going forward. Why not mark one as deprecated?
> > > 
> > > Because I couldn't decide which... It's a mixture with no clear pattern 
> > > of on what or when each one is used. Power is kind of special.
> > 
> >  That might be true for ibm, but is it true for calao systems?
> >  The website appears to now be something to do with Korean gambling, but
> >  the twitter remains and looks to have produced arm sbcs:
> >  https://twitter.com/calaosystems?lang=en
> 
> I used this:
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calao_Systems
> 
> The company went bankrupt in 2016.

Yah. I found the twitter to provide more info about the type of chips
they used than wikipedia though, since I was trying to confirm whether
or not they were power.

> ST based systems used one prefix and 
> Atmel based systems used the other. Which do I pick to deprecate? I'm 
> not expecting any new boards either. 

I guess, if nothing new will show up since the company itself got
deprecated, it doesn;t really matter.

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