From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Rix Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 16:37:25 -0500 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 12/17] SPEAr : i2c driver moved completely into drivers/i2c In-Reply-To: <4BDFE3B7.7090809@st.com> References: <1272250610-15439-1-git-send-email-vipin.kumar@st.com> <1272250610-15439-2-git-send-email-vipin.kumar@st.com> <1272250610-15439-3-git-send-email-vipin.kumar@st.com> <1272250610-15439-4-git-send-email-vipin.kumar@st.com> <1272250610-15439-5-git-send-email-vipin.kumar@st.com> <1272250610-15439-6-git-send-email-vipin.kumar@st.com> <1272250610-15439-7-git-send-email-vipin.kumar@st.com> <1272250610-15439-8-git-send-email-vipin.kumar@st.com> <1272250610-15439-9-git-send-email-vipin.kumar@st.com> <1272250610-15439-10-git-send-email-vipin.kumar@st.com> <1272250610-15439-11-git-send-email-vipin.kumar@st.com> <1272250610-15439-12-git-send-email-vipin.kumar@st.com> <1272250610-15439-13-git-send-email-vipin.kumar@st.com> <4BDE1804.2080705@bumblecow.com> <4BDFE3B7.7090809@st.com> Message-ID: <4BE1E515.8090608@bumblecow.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de 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 > >