From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754740Ab0KZOOp (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:14:45 -0500 Received: from opensource.wolfsonmicro.com ([80.75.67.52]:46847 "EHLO opensource2.wolfsonmicro.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751043Ab0KZOOn (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:14:43 -0500 Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:14:42 +0000 From: Mark Brown To: Laurent Pinchart Cc: 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: <20101126141442.GI30360@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> References: <1290652099-15102-1-git-send-email-laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> <201011251640.42206.laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> <20101125154952.GJ22298@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> <201011261513.37491.laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201011261513.37491.laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> X-Cookie: Sentient plasmoids are a gas. 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, Nov 26, 2010 at 03:13:36PM +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > On Thursday 25 November 2010 16:49:52 Mark Brown wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 04:40:41PM +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > > It's supposed to reflect whether the link can carry data. Think of the > > > active flag as a valve on a pipe. If the valve is open, the link is > > > active. If the valve is closed, the link is inactive. This is unrelated > > > to whether water actually flows through the pipe. > > This seems a confusing name, then - I'd expect an active link to be one > > which is actually carrying data rather than one which is available to > > carry data. How a more neutrally worded name such as "connected" (which > > is what ASoC uses currently)? > In our current vocabulary "connected" refers to entities between which a link > exist, regardless of the link state ("valve opened" or "valve closed"). I'm > not totally happy with "active" either, but if we replace it with "connected" > we need another word to replace current uses of "connected". Linked?