linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/8] PM / Domains: Rename struct dev_power_domain to struct dev_pm

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Message-ID: <87fwn45b24.fsf@ti.com>
Date:	Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:37:39 -0700
From:	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...com>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Linux PM mailing list <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>,
	Paul Walmsley <paul@...an.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] PM / Domains: Rename struct dev_power_domain to struct dev_pm_domain

"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl> writes:

> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>
>
> The naming convention used by commit 7538e3db6e015e890825fbd9f86599b
> (PM: Add support for device power domains), which introduced the
> struct dev_power_domain type for representing device power domains,
> evidently confuses some developers who tend to think that objects
> of this type must correspond to "power domains" as defined by
> hardware, which is not the case.  Namely, at the kernel level, a
> struct dev_power_domain object can represent arbitrary set of devices
> that are mutually dependent power management-wise and need not belong
> to one hardware power domain.  To avoid that confusion, rename struct
> dev_power_domain to struct dev_pm_domain and rename the related
> pointers in struct device and struct pm_clk_notifier_block from
> pwr_domain to pm_domain.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>

Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@...com>

Thanks!

Kevin
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