[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 12/17] SPEAr : i2c driver moved completely into drivers/i2c

Vipin KUMAR vipin.kumar at st.com
Tue May 4 11:07:03 CEST 2010


On 5/3/2010 5:55 AM, Tom Rix wrote:
> Vipin KUMAR wrote:
>> The i2c IP used by spear platform is a synopsys i2c controller
> 
> 'IP' expand.

IP is Intellectual Property i.e peripheral hardware

> What is the connection between 'synopsys' and 'designware' ?
> If the part is synopsys, that should be the string used
> instead of 'dw' or 'designware'

Synopsys is the vendor and designware is the class of peripherals 
from synopsys

>> The earlier driver adds the driver of this controller as if it is
>> specific to
>> spear platform.
>> The driver files are now moved into drivers/i2c folder for reusability
>> by other
> 
> Maybe something like
> 'The earlier i2c driver was specific to spear platforms.
>  This driver has been moved to the common driver directory drivers/i2c
>  where it can be used by other platforms'
> 
OK. I would improve on this

Regards
Vipin


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