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

Tom Rix tom at bumblecow.com
Wed May 5 23:37:25 CEST 2010


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
> 

Please use the term 'peripheral hardware' in place of IP
IP is too generic.

Tom

>> 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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