linux-kernel - Re: [linux-pm] [RFC 03/15] PM / Hibernate: separate block

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Message-Id: <201003252133.50206.rjw@sisk.pl>
Date:	Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:33:50 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@...a.org.au>
Cc:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [RFC 03/15] PM / Hibernate: separate block_io

On Thursday 25 March 2010, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On 26/03/10 07:12, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Thursday 25 March 2010, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> >> Hi again.
> >>
> >> On 25/03/10 09:58, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> >>> Hi.
> >>>
> >>> On 25/03/10 08:22, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> >>>> On 03/24/2010 09:30 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue 2010-03-23 17:17:31, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> >>>>>> +int sws_bio_read_page(pgoff_t page_off, void *addr, struct bio **bio_chain)
> >>>>>> +{
> >>>>>> +	return submit(READ, sws_resume_bdev, page_off * (PAGE_SIZE>>    9),
> >>>>>> +			virt_to_page(addr), bio_chain);
> >>>>>> +}
> >>>>>
> >>>>> sws_ is kind of strange prefix. We were trying to get away from
> >>>>> "swsuspend" name for quite some time...
> >>>>
> >>>> No problem to change the prefix to anything else. Do you (anybody)
> >>>> suggest anything?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> How about some abbreviation of hibernate? "hib"?
> >>
> >> On further reflection, how about "std" (suspend to disk)? I think that's
> >> less ugly than the 'hib' suggestion :)
> >
> > But it also decodes as "standard" if someone is not in the right context. :-)
> 
> Ah...
> 
> > If the "bio" part of the name is not essential (ie. there's no conflicting name
> > already), we could call it simply hibernate_read_page().
> 
> Yeah. So we're going with hibernate or hib_ if it needs abbreviating?

I'd just use "hibernate" without abbreviating if reasonably possible.
We can also use "image_" in some cases I guess.

Rafael
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