Re: [PATCH -mm 4/4] Blackfin: on-chip Two Wire Interface I2C driver

[Jean Delvare]

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:14:29 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 3/21/07, Bob Copeland <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > +config I2C_BLACKFIN_TWI
> > > +       tristate "Blackfin TWI I2C support"
> > > +       depends on I2C && (BF534 || BF536 || BF537)
> > > +       help
> > > +         This is the TWI I2C device driver for Blackfin 534/536/537.
> > > +         This driver can also be built as a module.  If so, the module
> > > +         will be called i2c-bfin-twi.
> >
> > Pardon my ignorance, but is there any reason to call it "Blackfin TWI"
> > as opposed to just "Blackfin" since TWI and I2C mean the same thing?
> > It lends itself to some redundancies such as:
> >
> > > +       pr_info("I2C: Blackfin I2C TWI driver\n");
> 
> it reflects the hardware manual and all public Analog Devices
> documentation ... the peripheral is always referred to as a "Two Wire
> Interface that is fully compatible with the I2C standard" since using
> the "I2C" term is not free

Damn, I hate it when legal idiocy takes the lead on technical clarity :(

-- 
Jean Delvare
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