From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Broadcom internal kernel review list
<bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com>,
"open list:ARM/Mediatek SoC support"
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"moderated list:ARM/Mediatek SoC support"
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] net: dsa: Use conduit and user terms
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 09:12:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZTYc6l2ZpLeGRFj9@duo.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231011222026.4181654-2-florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
On Wed 2023-10-11 15:20:25, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Use more inclusive terms throughout the DSA subsystem by moving away
> from "master" which is replaced by "conduit" and "slave" which is
> replaced by "user". No functional changes.
Note that by making it more "inclusive" you make it incomprehensible
for users where english is not their first language.
Plus, "user" already means something else in kernel context, so this
will likely be confusing even for native speakers.
This is wrong.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-23 7:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-11 22:20 [PATCH net-next v2 0/2] Switch DSA to inclusive terminology Florian Fainelli
2023-10-11 22:20 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] net: dsa: Use conduit and user terms Florian Fainelli
2023-10-12 21:23 ` Andrew Lunn
2023-10-12 23:10 ` Vladimir Oltean
2023-10-13 2:27 ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-10-13 16:25 ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-10-13 16:27 ` Florian Fainelli
2023-10-23 7:12 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2023-10-23 15:50 ` Florian Fainelli
2023-10-23 19:32 ` Vladimir Oltean
2023-10-11 22:20 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] net: dsa: Rename IFLA_DSA_MASTER to IFLA_DSA_CONDUIT Florian Fainelli
2023-10-11 23:30 ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-10-12 23:13 ` Vladimir Oltean
2023-10-13 2:30 ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-10-11 23:22 ` [PATCH net-next v2 0/2] Switch DSA to inclusive terminology Stephen Hemminger
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