Re: [PATCH 12/26] docs: i2c: smbus-protocol: properly name start and stop conditions

Jean Delvare
2020-01-20T14:17:00Z

On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 23:49:58 +0100, Luca Ceresoli wrote:
> In I2C there is no such thing as a "start bit" or a "stop bit". Use the
> proper naming: "start condition" and "stop condition".
>
> Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
> ---
> Documentation/i2c/smbus-protocol.rst | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/smbus-protocol.rst b/Documentation/i2c/smbus-protocol.rst
> index 1600b09ec0be..8510eeda1dd0 100644
> --- a/Documentation/i2c/smbus-protocol.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/i2c/smbus-protocol.rst
> @@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ Key to symbols
> ==============
>
> =============== =============================================================
> -S (1 bit) : Start bit
> -P (1 bit) : Stop bit
> +S : Start condition
> +P : Stop condition
> Rd/Wr (1 bit) : Read/Write bit. Rd equals 1, Wr equals 0.
> A, NA (1 bit) : Accept and reverse accept bit.
> Addr (7 bits): I2C 7 bit address. Note that this can be expanded as usual to

Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>

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Jean Delvare
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