On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Eugene Surovegin wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 02:26:23PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > i was just about to rename some of my variables and macros to be > > consistent with what i *thought* was the standard nomenclature of > > "IIC" as opposed to "I2C". just checked include/asm-ppc, and grepped > > for case-insensitive instances of both strings ... oh, god. there's > > really no preferred usage, is there? > > Philips' documentation uses I2C, not IIC, so I guess this is > _official_ name of the _bus_. > > Some vendors (like IBM in their 4xx parts) use IIC to name I2C > _interface_ to distinguish it from I2C _bus_ (they specifically > mention this in the chip manual). > > For example, in the corresponding 4xx driver I used "iic" because it > was written for IBM IIC _interface_.
i'm starting to regret having brought this up. :-) initially, i thought it was going to involve only my deciding what i wanted to name my own variables, to be consistent with common usage. now i see that it's nowhere near that straightforward. i'm going to leave this to wiser heads to mull over. rday
