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

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Message-ID: <4BABC93E.3000805@crca.org.au>
Date:	Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:36:14 +1100
From:	Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@...a.org.au>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
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

Hi.

On 26/03/10 07:33, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 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.

k.

Nigel
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