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> Ignoring connotations, master/slave is pretty unclear to me and needs more explanation. I've seen it used to describe:

> * a designation of where on the bus a device sits

I see, you're worried people will get this mixed up with Rosa Parks?

Honestly, it feels like the PC brigade is really having to bend over backwards to find arguments. That should tell them something.

> Or we could differentiate the cases with more applicable and descriptive words.

So you get Primary / Secondary or Main / Secondary... For all of your above cases. I don't quite see how that differentiates them.



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