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

From
Jean Delvare <hidden>
Date
2020-01-20 14:17:01
Also in
linux-i2c, lkml
Reply to
Luca Ceresoli, 2020-01-05
On Sun,  5 Jan 2020 23:49:58 +0100, Luca Ceresoli wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
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 <redacted>

-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support
Thread (72 messages) 72 messages, 4 authors, last reply 2020-01-23
Keyboard shortcuts
hback out one level
jnext message in thread / next series-diff position
kprevious message in thread / previous series-diff position
ldrill in
Escclose help / fold thread tree
?toggle this help