Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] dt-bindings: vendor-prefixes: Add NineTripod

From: Conor Dooley

Date: Tue Oct 28 2025 - 15:46:08 EST


On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 12:38:10PM -0700, Coia Prant wrote:
> At first, it was to avoid problems with the beginning of numbers.

What problems does starting with a number produce?

> Given that it is already used by downstream projects, we have retained
> this to ensure that users can seamlessly migrate to the mainline
> version.

What's the actual impact of changing it from "nine" to "9" for
downstream users? This is a board vendor, probably nothing is even
interacting with the board-level compatible at all programmatically?

Please don't top post.

> Thanks.
>
> 2025-10-28 19:35 (GMT+00:00), Conor Dooley <conor@xxxxxxxxxx> said:
> > On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 10:36:44PM +0800, Coia Prant wrote:
> > Add NineTripod to the vendor prefixes.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Coia Prant
> > ---
> > 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 f1d188200..37687737e 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml
> > @@ -1124,6 +1124,8 @@ patternProperties:
> > description: National Instruments
> > "^nicera,.*":
> > description: Nippon Ceramic Co., Ltd.
> > + "^ninetripod,.*":
> > Why ninetripod instead of 9tripod? That's what the company uses and in
> > the marketing fluff for the boards.
> > + description: Shenzhen 9Tripod Innovation and Development CO., LTD.
> > "^nintendo,.*":
> > description: Nintendo
> > "^nlt,.*":
> > --
> > 2.47.3
> >

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