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From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 8 Jul 2020 13:04:38 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] genpd: Fix up terminology with leader/follower
To:     Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
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On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 11:04 AM Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 at 10:35, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.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 leader/follower.
>
> In my opinion this doesn't really make it more clear, but rather the opposite.
>
> If we should improve, I suggest using "parent" and "child" instead. As
> matter of fact, that's already the de-facto terminology that people
> are using when talking about master/subdomains of genpd.

IMO "parent" and "child" would be better indeed, because genpd only
supports strict hierarchies.

Thanks!