[alsa-devel] [PATCH v8 03/12] media: Entities, pads and links

Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Tue Feb 8 14:46:43 CET 2011


Hi Sakari,

On Friday 28 January 2011 11:53:39 Sakari Ailus wrote:
> Hi Laurent,
> 
> Thanks for the patches!
> 
> I've got one comment that I should have made long time ago... Pads are
> inputs or outputs... or: are they sinks or sources? I recall that it was
> agreed on some occasion that sink and source are much less ambiguous and
> they should be used instead.
> 
> So we'd have MEDIA_PAD_FL_{SINK,SOURCE}, for example. Currently the
> source and documentation is using input/output and source/sink
> interchangeably. I think sink and source should be used all the time.
> 
> What do you think?

I think it makes sense. Hans ?

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart


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