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Date:      Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:35:33 +0100 (MET)
From:      Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@FreeBSD.ORG>, Nick Hibma <hibma@skylink.it>, "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: renaming transactions to openings in cam_sim.c 
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.95.991111122524.10028A-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911110945310.25540-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>

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On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Doug Rabson wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Matthew Jacob wrote:
>=20
> >=20
> >=20
> > On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> >=20
> > > >
> > > >> > I suggest the following name change for consistency. If there ar=
e no
> > > >> > comments I'll commit it tomorrow.
> > > >>=20
> > > >> No.
> > > >
> > > >:-) No what? No comments? Or no, don't change?
> > > >
> > > >Nick
> > >=20
> > > 1) A 24 hour request for review time-limit is way too short.  I frequ=
ently
> > >    get so bogged down with other work that I don't read this list for=
 days
> > >    at a time.  I'm sure I'm not the only one.
> > >=20
> > > 2) I see this as a gratuitous change.
> >=20
> > It seemd to clarify things for Nick- how about a comment in the source,
> > Nick?
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> The word 'transactions' always seemed more informative than 'openings' to
> me.

It does not in the BSD SCSI world given the history. 'openings' makes full
sense and 'transactions' makes some generic sense that is close to
no-informative.

I have had to learn about 3000 english words in order to understand
software and 'openings' didn't make any problem to me, even with the
initial spelling mistake or difference (opennings).=20

But, may-be, you want the kernel to use academic english wording and
indeed it is not in my fields at all. ;-)=20

G=E9rard.



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