Confused by function names cpuidle_install_idle_handler/cpuidle_uninstall_idle_handler

From: meraj.enigma@gmail.com (Mohammad Merajul Islam Molla)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Confused by function names cpuidle_install_idle_handler/cpuidle_uninstall_idle_handler
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 22:07:20 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHu9=sP0B0OKq3QFC=WeagJJSEwJdpSsTYdytag=WNTbyHmGPg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hello,

In drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c, there are two functions
cpuidle_install_idle_handler & cpuidle_uninstall_idle_handler. The
names seem confusing to me as they don't install any handler, rather
set 'initialized'  variable to 1/0.

In v3.0 kernel, these functions used to look as below where they
installed and uninstalled some handler function  -

void cpuidle_install_idle_handler(void)
123 {
124         if (enabled_devices && (pm_idle != cpuidle_idle_call)) {
125                 /* Make sure all changes finished before we switch
to new idle */
126                 smp_wmb();
127                 pm_idle = cpuidle_idle_call;
128         }
129 }

void cpuidle_uninstall_idle_handler(void)
135 {
136         if (enabled_devices && pm_idle_old && (pm_idle != pm_idle_old)) {
137                 pm_idle = pm_idle_old;
138                 cpuidle_kick_cpus();
139         }
140 }

Do these names (and corresponding comments) still hold?

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Thanks,
-Meraj