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

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Tue May 4 19:56:03 CEST 2010


On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 02:37:03PM +0530, Vipin KUMAR wrote:
> 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

So in a bazillion years when this stuff finally becomes public domain will
it suddenly be referred to by a different name?  IP is just its legal status
(and a vague description of it, at that), it isn't a description of the
physical entity (however commonly it might be used as such).

IMHO "logic", "block", etc. are better nouns for these things.

-Scott


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