Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264752AbTFEQq6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2003 12:46:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264756AbTFEQq6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2003 12:46:58 -0400 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:6016 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264752AbTFEQqw (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2003 12:46:52 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 13:00:43 -0400 (EDT) From: "Richard B. Johnson" X-X-Sender: root@chaos Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: Julien Oster cc: Linus Torvalds , LKML Subject: Re: /proc/bus/pci In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20030605125013$41ac@gated-at.bofh.it> <20030605160017$10e1@gated-at.bofh.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1467 Lines: 37 On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Julien Oster wrote: > Linus Torvalds writes: > > Hello Linus, > > > What the _f*ck_ is wrong with just calling it "PCI domain". It's a fine > > word, and yes, "domain" is used commonly in computer language, but that's > > a _good_ thing. Everybody immediately understands what it is about. > > Actually... I might have a problem with it. The really large Sun > Enterprise Servers have "Dynamic System Domains", DNS is made of > "domains", there are "SCSI domains", in NIS you set up a "domain", > virtual hosts at ISPs are sometimes just referred to as "domains" (ok, > it's silly sales talk, but it's there) and I sometimes put my code > into the "public domain". [SNIPPED...] I looked up domain in the dictionary and my eyes fell upon diatribe, which I think describes the most common use of "domain". Whatever happened to the word "group"? Why don't people just use the word that was invented to represent commonality? Why do they have to be "creative" and use words that are way out of context? > Julien Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.20 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). Why is the government concerned about the lunatic fringe? Think about it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/