On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 18:55:05 Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 06:13:35PM +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote: > > > Personally I think this is perfectly clear. The original confusion came from > > the word 'active', which I understand means 'streaming' in alsa. By adding > > a 'streaming' flag in addition to the active flag I think it will be clear > > that 'active' and 'streaming' are two different things. > > It's not that, it's the fact that active sounds to me like the link > ought to be powered up which isn't the case - it's too verby. Like I > say, I think I'd prefer a more passive name like "connected". Ah, now I understand what you mean. Would 'activated' be better than 'active'? Or perhaps just say: the link 'is on' or the link 'is switched on'? So: ...LINK_SWITCHED_ON (sorry, forgot what the prefix is). Actually, I think 'switched on' is a pretty good description of what is going on in the hardware. Regards, Hans > I guess if nobody else finds it confusing I can live with it. > -- Hans Verkuil - video4linux developer - sponsored by Cisco -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
