linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] of: Transactional DT support.

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Date:	Thu, 26 Jun 2014 07:56:30 +0100
From:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
To:	Dan Malek <dan.malek@...sulko.com>,
	Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@...sulko.com>
Cc:	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	Matt Porter <matt.porter@...aro.org>,
	Koen Kooi <koen@...inion.thruhere.net>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Alison Chaiken <Alison_Chaiken@...tor.com>,
	Dinh Nguyen <dinh.linux@...il.com>,
	Jan Lubbe <jluebbe@...net.de>,
	Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@....com>,
	Michael Stickel <ms@...able.de>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@...il.com>,
	Alan Tull <delicious.quinoa@...il.com>,
	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
	Michael Bohan <mbohan@...eaurora.org>,
	Ionut Nicu <ioan.nicu.ext@....com>,
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	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>, linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, linux-spi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Pete Popov <pete.popov@...sulko.com>,
	Georgi Vlaev <georgi.vlaev@...sulko.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] of: Transactional DT support.

On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 12:20:16 -0700, Dan Malek <dan.malek@...sulko.com> wrote:
> 
> On Jun 25, 2014, at 7:48 AM, Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@...sulko.com> wrote:
> 
> >>> +int of_transaction_commit(struct of_transaction *oft);
> >> 
> >> How about of_transaction_apply()?
> >> 
> > 
> > Sure.
> 
> LOL!  Panto, you give in too easily :)
> 
> Any transaction state diagrams I've seen always have a "commit" phase/state, never anything called "apply."  So, of_transaction_commit() is exactly the proper name.

Hahaha. my suggestiong on name is conditional on my earlier comment to
make the API bulk-change instead of transaction oriented. Commit is
indeed the right name for a transactional model.

g.

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