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

[Andrew Lunn]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 03:21:18PM +0100, Piergiorgio Beruto wrote:
> 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 :-)

I would prefer it was capitalised, to make it uniform with all the
other entries.

      Andrew