[PATCH v2 2/2] net: flexcan: add transceiver switch gpios support

Kurt Van Dijck kurt.van.dijck at eia.be
Thu Jun 28 08:08:35 EDT 2012


On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 07:41:10PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 01:29:19PM +0200, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
> > I mean which name is more precise, do these gpio enable/standy a "phy"
> > or a "transceiver". For example:
> > http://www.nxp.com/documents/application_note/AN00094.pdf, this document
> > says: TJA1041/1041A high speed CAN transceiver.
> > 
> Isn't term "phy" (physical interface) generally meant to be the same
> thing as "transceiver"?  I just happened to like the shorter one as
> what Hui did in his patch.

'trx' seemed the right abbreviation
http://www.acronymfinder.com/TRX.html

thanks to Oliver, in his email on May 9th.

Kurt



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