On Thursday 24 March 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 16:38 -0700, Steve Calfee wrote: > > On 03/23/11 16:17, Michal Nazarewicz wrote: > > >>> On Wednesday 23 March 2011 20:53:13 MichaÅ Nazarewicz wrote: > > >>>> I think P2P could be better. > > >> > > >> OTOH, I knew that PTP was point-to-point. > > > > > > It can be any of that, depending on context. For me PTP is more like > > > Picture Transport Protocol, whereas "2" between two letters is usually > > > "to". > > > > > Well, my 2 cents, picture transport protocol is so obviously different > > than flags for network interfaces it does not cause a mental collision. > > PTP is also Precision Time Protocol, which *is* used on network > interfaces (maybe not USB-connected interfaces though). > > How about FLAG_NON_IEEE, meaning that the physical layer is not based on > an IEEE 802.3, 802.11 or other standard physical layer. I think that doesn't really express the meaning, since FLAG_WWAN is presumably also not IEEE, right? Thanks for the bike shedding everyone, I'll just use my own color then and call it FLAG_POINTTOPOINT. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
