From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH v6 03/12] media: Entities, pads and links
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 13:34:45 +0100
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Hi Mark,

On Friday 26 November 2010 15:14:42 Mark Brown wrote:
> 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?

That's a good option. Hans, do you want to comment on this ?

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart
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