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Date:   Sat, 15 Feb 2020 07:14:02 +0100
From:   Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
To:     Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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        Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.5 495/542] docs: i2c: writing-clients:
 properly name the stop condition
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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.

-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support