Re: [PATCH v2 29/30] dt-bindings: add vendor prefix for bananapi

From: Sean Wang
Date: Tue May 09 2017 - 05:41:07 EST


On Tue, 2017-05-09 at 16:03 +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 2:58 PM, Sean Wang <sean.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2017-04-28 at 15:37 -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> >> On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 05:26:13PM +0800, sean.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> > From: Sean Wang <sean.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> >
> >> > Banana Pi team in Sinovoip Co., Limited which are dedicated to
> >> > design and manufacture open hardware product.
> >> >
> >> > Website: http://www.banana-pi.org/
> >> >
> >> > Signed-off-by: Sean Wang <sean.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> > ---
> >> > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt | 1 +
> >> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >> >
> >> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
> >> > index ec0bfb9..8ca0f3c 100644
> >> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
> >> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
> >> > @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ avia avia semiconductor
> >> > avic Shanghai AVIC Optoelectronics Co., Ltd.
> >> > axentia Axentia Technologies AB
> >> > axis Axis Communications AB
> >> > +bananapi Banana Pi SINOVOP CO., LIMITED
> >>
> >> s/SINOVOP/SINOVOIP/
> >
> > Hi Rob,
> >
> > thanks for your careful reviewing , i will correct it in the next
> > version.
> >
> > BTW, Could those related dts changes go through your tree if everything
> > looks good? Because I find Matthias have been inactive for a while and
> > the latest branch in his tree seems still staying on 4.10.
>
> Chiming in from the linux-sunxi side.
>
> We've been using the "lemaker" prefix for the original Banana Pi, and
> the "sinovoip" prefix for all the later ones by SINOVOIP. Both prefixes
> are still undocumented.
>
> Given the complicated history behind the Banana Pi brand, do we know
> what prefix they prefer, and what company should be tied to it?
>
> Thanks
> ChenYu


I knew there are some litigation issues between them

Finally, Bananapi brand is owned by BIPAI KEJI and registered has been
registered in more than 20 countries. So Lemaker can no longer use
bananapi brand.

I will update prefix naming with bananpi, BIPAI KEJI LIMITED for real
bananapi boards that is confirmed by BIPAI KEJI



> >
> > Sean
> >
> >>
> >> > boe BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
> >> > bosch Bosch Sensortec GmbH
> >> > boundary Boundary Devices Inc.
> >> > --
> >> > 1.9.1
> >> >
> >
> >
> >
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