Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Jul 2020 18:28:19 -0400 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [Tech-board-discuss] [PATCH] CodingStyle: Inclusive Terminology |
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On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 01:17:47 +0300 Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com> wrote:
> Totally agree with you! But do we care then whether two _devices_ or _objects_ > are slave-master? Can't see how it fundamentally differs.
The term slave carries a lot more meaning than subordinate. I replied to someone else but later realized that the person sent me their reply offlist, so my reply to them was also offlist. What I told them was, back in college (decades ago), when I first mentioned "master/slave" in conversation (I think it was about hard drives), a person in that conversation stated that those were not very nice terms to use. I blew it off back then, but after listening to more people, I found that using "slave" even to describe a device is not something that people care to hear about.
And in actuality, does one device actually enslave another device? I think that terminology is misleading to begin with.
-- Steve
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