Sounds good to me. -jms Sent from my PDA. No type good.
----- Original Message ----- From: hwloc-devel-boun...@open-mpi.org <hwloc-devel-boun...@open-mpi.org> To: Hardware locality development list <hwloc-de...@open-mpi.org> Sent: Sat Jan 16 06:53:59 2010 Subject: [hwloc-devel] parent vs father Jeff Squyres wrote: >> I am not sure. The object structure contains a father pointer. We use >> parent in the API, but it might refer to different things, like father, >> grandfather, ... >> > > FWIW, the english word "parent" definitely refers to the immediate ancestor. > It does *not* refer to grandparents or great-grandparents, etc. > Since we modified quite a lot of things in the API between 0.9 and 1.0, we probably could fix this as well, ie: * use parent instead of father everything * use ancestor instead of parent when not talking about the immediate ancestor Brice _______________________________________________ hwloc-devel mailing list hwloc-de...@open-mpi.org http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/hwloc-devel
