So here's a question, particularly for POCs. Is "master" a problematic word when not juxtaposed with "slave"? My guess is not, because the word has a much broader meaning in English, but I'd like to hear your thoughts.
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What i'm really getting at is, don't blindly replace one word with another unless you understand all of the subtle implications that has to the engineers reading the documentation. There likely isn't a 1:1 replacement for any problematic term.
Well, as I expressed in a previous thread we're already abusing master/slave in contexts where it has nothing to do with control, so the meaning is already all but totally diluted :-) E.g. for I²C "initiator/responder" makes a heck of a lot more sense.
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Exactly - but if you're picking new terms, pick ones that make sense *in the context of the system you're using them in*.
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Yup. Do you have an example of a case with more of a control relationship? I guess something like JTAG would qualify, but for that one we're already using "debug target".
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