From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752831Ab0LCOyM (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Dec 2010 09:54:12 -0500 Received: from opensource.wolfsonmicro.com ([80.75.67.52]:51162 "EHLO opensource2.wolfsonmicro.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751074Ab0LCOyL (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Dec 2010 09:54:11 -0500 Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 14:54:08 +0000 From: Mark Brown 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 Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH v6 03/12] media: Entities, pads and links 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 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201012031450.59137.laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> X-Cookie: Shading within a garment may occur. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@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.