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

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Message-ID: <7h8sfr1fwc.fsf@baylibre.com>
Date:   Fri, 10 Jul 2020 09:41:39 -0700
From:   Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>
To:     Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        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 <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] genpd: Fix up terminology with parent/child

Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org> writes:

> On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 at 14:25, Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@...nel.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 1:32 AM Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> 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>
>>
>> Applied as 5.9 material with a minor subject edit, thanks!
>
> If not too late, feel free to add my ack to the patch.

And mine too.

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