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

[Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 02:07:57PM +0200, Lothar Waßmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Shawn Guo writes:
> > 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.
> > 
> A transceiver is just a dumb piece of hardware, while a PHY contains
> some intelligence of its own.
> 
Then, it sounds more like a PHY than transceiver, since it's an IC
chip with some control over it.

-- 
Regards,
Shawn


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