On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 02:59:43PM +0200, Nicolas Frattaroli wrote: > On Sunday, 21 September 2025 07:00:59 Central European Summer Time Jassi Brar > wrote:
> > > +#define MBOX_FULL BIT(0) /* i.e. we've received data */ > > > +#define MBOX_CLOGGED BIT(1) /* i.e. the channel is shutdown */ > > This is confusing. CLOGGED usually means malfunction, but it seems you > > want to call it STOPPED or UNINIT? > I don't agree that "CLOGGED usually means malfunction". To clog something > is to impede its flow, which in this case is the correct terminology to > refer to what's happened to the channel. "UNINIT" is wrong, it's initialised > properly. "STOPPED" is also wrong, it's not stopped, it still sends, it just > won't pass it on through. As a native English speaker I'd say that clogged has heavy overtones of broken and malfunction, like Jassi says it'd usually describe a fault condition. Something like "blocked" might be more neutral.
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