linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/26] docs: i2c: summary: rewrite the "terminology" section

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Message-ID: <20200120110426.56490833@endymion>
Date:   Mon, 20 Jan 2020 11:04:26 +0100
From:   Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
To:     Luca Ceresoli <luca@...aceresoli.net>
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>,
        Peter Rosin <peda@...ntia.se>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/26] docs: i2c: summary: rewrite the "terminology"
 section

On Sun,  5 Jan 2020 23:49:49 +0100, Luca Ceresoli wrote:
> This section, partly dating back to the pre-git era, is somewhat
> unclear and partly incorrect. Rewrite it almost completely including a
> reference figure, concise but precise definition of each term and the
> paths where drivers are found. Particular care has been put in clarifying
> the relation between adapter and algorithm, which has no correspondence
> in the I2C spec terminology.

It may make sense to mention path "drivers/i2c/algos/" in the paragraph
which mentions reusable algorithms.

> Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@...aceresoli.net>
> ---
>  Documentation/i2c/i2c.svg     | 1341 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  Documentation/i2c/summary.rst |   35 +-
>  2 files changed, 1362 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/i2c/i2c.svg
> (...)

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

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Jean Delvare
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