[dpdk-dev] [RFC v8] /net: memory interface (memif)
Jakub Grajciar -X (jgrajcia - PANTHEON TECHNOLOGIES at Cisco)
jgrajcia at cisco.com
Mon May 20 11:22:09 CEST 2019
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2019 5:22 PM
> To: Jakub Grajciar
> <jgrajcia at cisco.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC v8] /net: memory interface (memif)
>
> On Thu, 16 May 2019 13:46:58 +0200
> Jakub Grajciar <jgrajcia at cisco.com> wrote:
>
> > +enum memif_role_t {
> > + MEMIF_ROLE_MASTER,
> > + MEMIF_ROLE_SLAVE,
> > +};
>
> Because master/slave terminology is potentially culturally offensive it is
> flagged by many corporate source scanning tools.
>
> Could you use primary/secondary in memif instead?
Other implementations also use master/slave terminology, so changing it would be confusing. However, we will consider using primary/secondary in next protocol version.
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