Re: [GIT PULL] ARM: SoC/genpd driver updates for v6.6

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>,
	linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>,
	soc@kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@collabora.com>,
	"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ARM: SoC/genpd driver updates for v6.6
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 18:19:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wi5Lh-NG_rvcx3Zyqd2Uhj76G4V73tWCFULhVzOU6e1xg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 at 17:48, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>
> How about moving it to drivers/power/domain/ instead?

That sounds like a sensible name and would seem to fit logically with
our existing tree structure quite well.

> I don't think we can easily rename the interfaces that have been
> in use for the past 12 years

I actually think the interface names are much less of an issue, since
anybody using them is presumably familiar with the naming.

It was only with the directory structure that I reacted to it, because
that kind of exposes the naming to people who definitely are *not*
familiar with it (ie me, but presumably anybody else who sees the
diffstats etc fly past).

And yes, we have a number of other pretty obscure driver names in our
tree (I end up having to remind myself what "ntb" and "hsi" etc mean),
and I don't tend to love them either, but at least they tend to be
industry / vendor names.

            Linus