From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Brown Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH v6 03/12] media: Entities, pads and links Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 14:54:08 +0000 Message-ID: <20101203145408.GW859@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> References: <1290652099-15102-1-git-send-email-laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> <201012031119.36771.laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> <201012031306.18520.hverkuil@xs4all.nl> <201012031450.59137.laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201012031450.59137.laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Laurent Pinchart Cc: Hans Verkuil , linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sakari.ailus@maxwell.research.nokia.com, lennart@poettering.net List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 02:50:58PM +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > On Friday 03 December 2010 13:06:18 Hans Verkuil wrote: > > > Just to confirm thinks, Mark's proposal is to replace 'connected' by > > > 'linked' and 'active' by 'connected'. Are we on the same page here ? > > Yes, but when I read it back it does not make me happy. 'Connected' and > > 'linked' basically have the same meaning in English. > I unfortunately agree that it's a bit confusing :-( It feels like the problem here is that for whatever reason (I'm not sure what?) you're trying to come up with verbs for links that are currently disconnected - in ASoC we just say we've got paths that exist and then we talk about the paths that are connected. Verbing everything makes it all sound active which is confusing when you're talking about links that are idle.