netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 5/5] drivers/net/phy: add driver for the onsemi NCN26000 10BASE-T1S PHY

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Date:   Mon, 9 Jan 2023 15:21:18 +0100
From:   Piergiorgio Beruto <piergiorgio.beruto@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@...gutronix.de>,
        mailhol.vincent@...adoo.fr, sudheer.mogilappagari@...el.com,
        sbhatta@...vell.com, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        wangjie125@...wei.com, corbet@....net, lkp@...el.com,
        gal@...dia.com, gustavoars@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 5/5] drivers/net/phy: add driver for the
 onsemi NCN26000 10BASE-T1S PHY

On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 02:31:39PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> Linux tends to ignore Marketing, because Marketing tends to change its
> mind every 6 months. Also, Linux ignores companies being bought and
> sold, changing their name. So this PHY will forever be called whatever
> name you give it here. The vitesse PHY driver is an example of
> this. They got bought by Microsemi, and then Microchip bought
> Microsemi. The PHY driver is still called vitesse.c.
> 
> How about using the legal name, 'ON Semiconductor
> Corporation'
That's perfectly clear Andrew, I can certainly see why Linux should
ignore marketing.

Sill, 'ON Semiconductor' is the old company name, the product datasheet can be
found at www.onsemi.com. I would honestly feel more comfortable using
the current company name. If you really want the first 'o' to be
capitalized, then so be it. Hopefully people will not notice :-)

Thanks,
Piergiorgio