gadget? non-host? On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, David Brownell wrote: > > > > ... except that this code does NOT follow those conventions, as > > I've argued. And "client" is explicitly contrary to the USB spec, > > which uses that as a host-side phrase (though not often). > > Note that the relevance of the USB spec to most people is exactly 0%. > > "USB device" is what people say about the things you call "clients". The > real world takes precedence, and there is absolutely _no_ way a Linux "USB > device driver" will ever mean that the driver turns the box into a USB > device. > > A "USB device driver" is driver for the mouse/scanner/whatever, ie the > _other_ end, and that's that. Claiming anything else is just confusing and > silly. > > Since we're talking about the other end of a "host" driver, "client" makes > sense - in computers, I've always seen "client" as the reverse of the > "host", but maybe that's just me. Outside of computers, "guest" seems to > be the proper antonym, but that just strikes me as bizarre (a "USB guest > driver"?) > > What were the other suggestions? > > Linus > > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel > -- /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ |Stephen J. Gowdy | SLAC, MailStop 34, | |http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~gowdy/ | 2575 Sand Hill Road, | |http://calendar.yahoo.com/gowdy | Menlo Park CA 94025, USA | |EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +1 650 926 3144 | \------------------------------------+-------------------------/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
