linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] genpd: Fix up terminology with parent/child

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Message-ID: <20200709082222.GE13487@kroah.com>
Date:   Thu, 9 Jul 2020 10:22:22 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
        Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>,
        Kieran Bingham <kbingham@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
        Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@....com>,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] genpd: Fix up terminology with parent/child

On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 04:32:13PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> The genpd infrastructure uses the terms master/slave, but such uses have
> no external exposures (not even in Documentation/driver-api/pm/*) and are
> not mandated by nor associated with any external specifications. Change
> the language used through-out to parent/child.
> 
> There was one possible exception in the debugfs node
> "pm_genpd/pm_genpd_summary" but its path has no hits outside of the
> kernel itself when performing a code search[1], and it seems even this
> single usage has been non-functional since it was introduced due to a
> typo in the Python ("apend" instead of correct "append"). Fix the typo
> while we're at it.
> 
> [1] https://codesearch.debian.net/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>