On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 10:48:07 -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
From: Luca Ceresoli luca@lucaceresoli.net
[ Upstream commit 4fcb445ec688a62da9c864ab05a4bd39b0307cdc ]
In I2C there is no such thing as a "stop bit". Use the proper naming: "stop condition".
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli luca@lucaceresoli.net Reported-by: Jean Delvare jdelvare@suse.de Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare jdelvare@suse.de Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang wsa@the-dreams.de Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org
Documentation/i2c/writing-clients.rst | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients.rst b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients.rst index ced309b5e0cc8..3869efdf84cae 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients.rst +++ b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients.rst @@ -357,9 +357,9 @@ read/written. This sends a series of messages. Each message can be a read or write, and they can be mixed in any way. The transactions are combined: no -stop bit is sent between transaction. The i2c_msg structure contains -for each message the client address, the number of bytes of the message -and the message data itself. +stop condition is issued between transaction. The i2c_msg structure +contains for each message the client address, the number of bytes of the +message and the message data itself. You can read the file ``i2c-protocol`` for more information about the actual I2C protocol.
I wouldn't bother backporting this documentation patch to stable and longterm trees. That's a minor vocabulary thing really, it does not qualify.