[PATCH v5][resend v4] of: replace Asahi Kasei Corp vendor prefix

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Fri Jan 9 05:46:16 PST 2015


On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 4:07 AM, Kuninori Morimoto
<kuninori.morimoto.gx at renesas.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Stephen
>
> Thank you for your feedback
>
>> > I'm sending this "of: replace Asahi Kasei Corp vendor prefix" during
>> > half-year (since Jun 2014) , many times. But, no-one care it.
>> > I don't know who is the best maintainer.
>> >  - Stephen : because it has Tegra ?
>> >  - Olof    : because it has Tegra (= ARM) ?
>> >  - Arnd    : because it has Tegra (= ARM) ?
>> >  - Matthias: because it has Tegra (= ARM SoC) ?
>> >  - Rob     : because DT ?
>> >  - Andrew  : Last chance ?
>> >
>> > But, could you please care this patch ?
>> > I will re-send it again
>>
>> It doesn't seem to be ack'd by any of the DT maintainers. Retro-actively
>> changing a DT vendor name would need that, I think.
>
> Rob ?
> I had sent this patch to him since half-years ago, many times...
> Or other maintainer ?
>
>> Thierry and Alex (both Tegra maintainers) appear to have ack'd it, so it
>> seems they expect it to go through some tree other than Tegra. Weren't
>> there a bunch of related patches along with this (e.g. updating relevant
>> drivers to support both prefixes?) so it was expected this patch would
>> be applied together with them?
>
> I guess they expected it goes to DT branch (?)
> This is only 1 patch. it doesn't have related patch-set

It is in my queue. If the users of it are fine with breaking things,
who am I to argue with them.

Rob



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