On 16.05.2010 13:28, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
On 5/16/10 12:20 PM, Rudolf Marek wrote:
But I vote for DRIVERS_SII because we can add all other SATA SIL because they are all compatible.
why "SII" not "SIL" then? just asking... is that the name of the "group of devices"?
AFAIK someone from Silicon Image sent a mail to the Linux kernel mailing list some time ago and explained that SiI (uppercase S, lowercase i, uppercase I) was the preferred spelling/capitalization, but sii and SII were OK as well. The SIL variant was caused by people who mistook the last letter (uppercase I) for a lowercase l and then changed capitalization of the misread word to all-uppercase or all-lowercase.
However, it seems that even inside Silicon Image some people use SIL, but they seem to be in the minority. The following (unrelated to the device the mail was about) PDF uses a font where uppercase I and lowercase l look different: http://www.siliconimage.com/docs/SiI%201169PB%20FINAL.pdf
Regards, Carl-Daniel