Hi Mauro, On 09-07-20, 13:11, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Em Mon, 06 Jul 2020 06:30:01 -0700 > Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> escreveu: > > > > $ git grep -i -w -P '\w*slave\w*' drivers | \ > > cut -f1,2 -d/ | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -20 | cat -n > > 1 5683 drivers/net > > 2 2118 drivers/gpu > > 3 1807 drivers/dma > > 4 1389 drivers/i2c > > 5 866 drivers/interconnect > > 6 835 drivers/soundwire > > 7 821 drivers/spi > > 8 698 drivers/w1 > > 9 508 drivers/media > > 10 481 drivers/infiniband > > 11 440 drivers/ata > > 12 317 drivers/scsi > > 13 267 drivers/fsi > > 14 240 drivers/tty > > 15 225 drivers/vme > > 16 223 drivers/staging > > 17 157 drivers/mmc > > 18 155 drivers/usb > > 19 141 drivers/video > > 20 140 drivers/char > > It sounds that, as soon after this patch gets merged, the mailing lists > will be flooded by lots of patches replacing such terms with something > else :-( > > Doing a quick look at the media subsystem, it sounds that most terms > come from I2C master/slave and DiSEqC terminology, as defined by their > specs (and the others seem to be derived from some hardware vendor > specific terminology). > > As they're all supported by the current specs, if one would want > to replace them, it should first ensure that the supporting specs > should be using a different terminology, as otherwise replacing > them would just make harder for anyone trying to understand the > code.
I think waiting for specs may result in long delays, we all know how 'fast' spec bodies work! Putting my soundwire maintainer hat, I see more than 1K uses of 'slave' in the subsystem due to MIPI defined terms of SoundWire Master/Slave, so I am planning to replace that and not wait for MIPI to update the spec. A similar approach where we discuss with relevant stakeholder and arrive at replacement terms and swap them would be great Thanks -- ~Vinod
