Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] devicetree: Add vendor prefix for Shenzhen Sunchip Technology Co., Ltd

From: Rob Herring
Date: Wed Aug 17 2016 - 08:56:19 EST


On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 1:28 PM, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
<ccc94453@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 07:56:24AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 10:11:51PM +0200, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote:
>> >
>> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
>> > index 1992aa9..fbad2cea 100644
>> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
>> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
>> > @@ -256,6 +256,7 @@ ste ST-Ericsson
>> > stericsson ST-Ericsson
>> > syna Synaptics Inc.
>> > synology Synology, Inc.
>> > +sunchip Shenzhen Sunchip Technology Co., Ltd
>> > SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc
>>
>> These are not in alphabetical order. Maybe someone thought uppercase
>> should be separate, but I don't. So please fix the ordering here moving
>> SUNW before syna.
>
> I'm new to this, so I could use a bit of guidance here. Is it OK if I
> send a follow-up patch to fix the ordering or should I send a patch to
> fix the ordering first, before the sunchip prefix is added?

For this, just doing it all in one patch is fine. If you want to do 2
patches, then fix SUNW first then add sunchip.

> I never considered the possibility that the list wouldn't be in
> alphabetical order to begin with, so the brain power went into deciding
> if uppercase should be sorted separately.

Even if uppercase is sorted after lowercase, you've got it in the wrong place.

Rob