[PATCH v4 01/10] dt-bindings: vendor-prefixes: add bouffalolab

[Rob Herring]

On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 05:02:23PM +0800, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 09:53:12PM -0500, Samuel Holland wrote:
> > Hi Jisheng,
> > 
> > Thanks for updating this series!
> > 
> > On 5/18/23 10:22, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> > > In the following commits, we will support bl808 SoC which is from
> > > Bouffalo Lab Technology (Nanjing) Co., Ltd.
> > > 
> > > Add bouffalolab vendor prefix binding.
> > > 
> > > Link: https://en.bouffalolab.com/
> > > Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang at kernel.org>
> > > Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley at microchip.com>
> > > Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at rivosinc.com>
> > > ---
> > >  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 82d39ab0231b..3566346f2f9e 100644
> > > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml
> > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml
> > > @@ -200,6 +200,8 @@ patternProperties:
> > >      description: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
> > >    "^bosch,.*":
> > >      description: Bosch Sensortec GmbH
> > > +  "^bouffalolab,.*":
> > > +    description: Bouffalo Lab Technology (Nanjing) Co., Ltd.
> > 
> > Have you thought about using the "bflb" abbreviation as the vendor
> 
> I did think about bflb vs bouffalolab. Here is what I thought: I came
> across "marvell" vs "mrvl" sevral years ago, I got an impression
> "marvell" vendor prefix is preferred if I read the discussions
> correctly.
> 
> As for Bouffalolab vendor prefix, I have no preference, maybe DT
> maintainers can provide inputs here.
> Rob, Conor, Krzysztof, what's your opinion?

The general preference is to match the vendor's domain name (minus the 
.com, etc.). Originally, the preference was stock ticker symbol, but 
we've pretty much moved away from that.

So that's 'bouffalolab'.

Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>

Rob