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

Vipin KUMAR vipin.kumar at st.com
Thu May 6 03:44:15 CEST 2010


On 5/4/2010 11:26 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> 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.
> 

Point taken.
I would use logic/block etc. I think it makes more sense

Regards
Vipin

> -Scott
> 



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