From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vipin KUMAR Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 07:14:15 +0530 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 12/17] SPEAr : i2c driver moved completely into drivers/i2c In-Reply-To: <20100504175603.GA10906@schlenkerla.am.freescale.net> References: <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> <20100504175603.GA10906@schlenkerla.am.freescale.net> Message-ID: <4BE21EEF.60105@st.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de 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 >