[PATCH v2 2/2] net: flexcan: add transceiver switch gpios support
Lothar Waßmann
LW at KARO-electronics.de
Thu Jun 28 08:19:29 EDT 2012
Shawn Guo writes:
> 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.
> >
> > But it does not really matter to me, will change the name since you
> > care about it.
> >
> Do you care the variable name also? If so, we will get:
>
> int transceiver_en_gpio;
> int transceiver_stby_gpio;
> bool transceiver_en_high;
> bool transceiver_stby_high;
>
> So everything becomes long :)
>
'xcvr' is a common acronym for 'transceiver'.
Lothar Waßmann
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