[asterisk-dev] chan_cellphone - Mantis issue 8919

[Olle E Johansson]

10 maj 2007 kl. 20.18 skrev Jason Parker:

> Hey all,
>     This was discussed a little in the past, but I'd like to bring  
> it up one more time, and get an official consensus from the community.
>
> I'm planning on committing the patch in Mantis issue 8919  
> (chan_cellphone) soon, and before I do, I wanted to get thoughts  
> from all of you on what we should actually name it.  Some of you  
> (myself included) have voiced concerns about the name of the  
> channel driver - it's outgrown it, since it no longer supports  
> *just* cellphones.  It also supports bluetooth headsets, and in the  
> future could support even more (bluetooth fax profile, anybody?   
> who knows what the future may hold).
>
> chan_bluetooth seems to be the most obvious name, but that's  
> already used by another similar channel driver - that would only  
> cause confusion...and confusion is very bad.
>
> I'd like to propose the name "chan_mobile" (Matthew Rubenstein gets  
> credit for suggesting it as the new name (but a google search says  
> I called it 6 months prior - before chan_cellphone even existed :p))
>
> If you have thoughts/feelings for/against the name or for/against  
> the name change, please feel free to voice them here, or to me  
> privately.
>
chan_pan :-)

PAN/nokia
PAN/peter

PAN = Personal Area Network
/O