On 16.05.2010 13:28, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > On 5/16/10 12:20 PM, Rudolf Marek wrote: > >> But I vote for DRIVERS_SII because we can add all other SATA SIL >> because they are all compatible. >> > why "SII" not "SIL" then? just asking... is that the name of the "group > of devices"? >
AFAIK someone from Silicon Image sent a mail to the Linux kernel mailing list some time ago and explained that SiI (uppercase S, lowercase i, uppercase I) was the preferred spelling/capitalization, but sii and SII were OK as well. The SIL variant was caused by people who mistook the last letter (uppercase I) for a lowercase l and then changed capitalization of the misread word to all-uppercase or all-lowercase. However, it seems that even inside Silicon Image some people use SIL, but they seem to be in the minority. The following (unrelated to the device the mail was about) PDF uses a font where uppercase I and lowercase l look different: http://www.siliconimage.com/docs/SiI%201169PB%20FINAL.pdf Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
