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authorLuca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>2020-01-29 16:19:33 +0100
committerWolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>2020-01-29 22:01:30 +0100
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treec3f19523ca964d211149dfba03dc9e25a41ff3ad /Documentation/i2c
parentf72beb8bf9c401483a08fb548bbc9b946680a637 (diff)
docs: i2c: i2c-protocol: properly name start and stop conditions
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> Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
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diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/i2c-protocol.rst b/Documentation/i2c/i2c-protocol.rst
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+++ b/Documentation/i2c/i2c-protocol.rst
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ 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
@@ -46,9 +46,9 @@ Combined transactions
This corresponds to i2c_transfer().
-They are just like the above transactions, but instead of a stop bit P
-a start bit S is sent and the transaction continues. An example of
-a byte read, followed by a byte write::
+They are just like the above transactions, but instead of a stop
+condition P a start condition S is sent and the transaction continues.
+An example of a byte read, followed by a byte write::
S Addr Rd [A] [Data] NA S Addr Wr [A] Data [A] P
@@ -77,8 +77,9 @@ I2C_M_NOSTART:
S Addr Rd [A] [Data] NA Data [A] P
If you set the I2C_M_NOSTART variable for the first partial message,
- we do not generate Addr, but we do generate the startbit S. This will
- probably confuse all other clients on your bus, so don't try this.
+ we do not generate Addr, but we do generate the start condition S.
+ This will probably confuse all other clients on your bus, so don't
+ try this.
This is often used to gather transmits from multiple data buffers in
system memory into something that appears as a single transfer to the