linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] dt-bindings: vendor-prefixes: Add NineTripod

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Message-ID: <20251029-reseller-unsavory-5461fe7f6cce@spud>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:24:55 +0000
From: Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>
To: Coia Prant <coiaprant@...il.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
	Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>, Dragan Simic <dsimic@...jaro.org>,
	Jonas Karlman <jonas@...boo.se>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] dt-bindings: vendor-prefixes: Add NineTripod

On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 01:04:32PM -0700, Coia Prant wrote:
> There won't be any problems at the moment.

Please stop top posting.

> Just out of habit (because when writing code, variable names cannot
> begin with a number)
> There may be some misimplemented parsers that cannot do this.
> 
> As a practical matter, the branch of openwrt has added support for
> this board in advance, and openwrt uses the DTS name to initialize
> some default settings such as LEDs and bridge

That sounds like a problem with the WRT development process. This is a
trivial change, there could be more disruptive things required to
satisfy reviewers. Why was it submitted there in advance anyway?

> I'm not sure if he will affect the version that has been released.
> But maybe it's not a big problem.
> 
> If you feel that there is no problem, I can send a new set of patches
> to fix this problem.

Please do.

> 2025-10-28 19:46 (GMT+00:00), Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org> said:
> > On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 12:38:10PM -0700, Coia Prant wrote:
> > At first, it was to avoid problems with the beginning of numbers.
> > What problems does starting with a number produce?
> > Given that it is already used by downstream projects, we have retained
> > this to ensure that users can seamlessly migrate to the mainline
> > version.
> > What's the actual impact of changing it from "nine" to "9" for
> > downstream users? This is a board vendor, probably nothing is even
> > interacting with the board-level compatible at all programmatically?
> > Please don't top post.
> > Thanks.
> >
> > 2025-10-28 19:35 (GMT+00:00), Conor Dooley  said:
> > On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 10:36:44PM +0800, Coia Prant wrote:
> > Add NineTripod to the vendor prefixes.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Coia Prant
> > ---
> > 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 f1d188200..37687737e 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml
> > @@ -1124,6 +1124,8 @@ patternProperties:
> > description: National Instruments
> > "^nicera,.*":
> > description: Nippon Ceramic Co., Ltd.
> > +  "^ninetripod,.*":
> > Why ninetripod instead of 9tripod? That's what the company uses and in
> > the marketing fluff for the boards.
> > +    description: Shenzhen 9Tripod Innovation and Development CO., LTD.
> > "^nintendo,.*":
> > description: Nintendo
> > "^nlt,.*":
> > --
> > 2.47.3
> >

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