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* [PATCH 0/4] PM: Replace "freeze" with "s2idle" in item names related to suspend-to-idle
@ 2017-08-05 12:55 Rafael J. Wysocki
  2017-08-05 12:56 ` [PATCH 1/4] PM / s2idle: Rename PM_SUSPEND_FREEZE to PM_SUSPEND_S2IDLE Rafael J. Wysocki
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From: Rafael J. Wysocki @ 2017-08-05 12:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linux PM
  Cc: LKML, Linux ACPI, Peter Zijlstra, Thomas Gleixner,
	Srinivas Pandruvada, Jacob Pan, Len Brown, Daniel Lezcano

Hi Everyone,

The term "suspend-to-idle" (and its short form "s2idle") was invented after
introducing support for the system state it refers to.  At that time, the
feature was called "freeze", kind of for the lack of a better idea how to
call it.

It would not be a problem if it wasn't confusing, but alas it is.  The word
"freeze" is quite heavily loaded in the PM terminology.  It is related to
the freezing of tasks, the freezing of filesystems (which isn't only used
for PM for that matter), and one of the phases of handling devices during
hibernation (and during resume from it) is called "freeze", which is reflected
in the names of PM callbacks used by it.

To avoid that confusion, the following patches change the names of various
items related to suspend-to-idle by replacing the word "freeze" in them
with "s2idle".

The series is on top of current linux-next.

Thanks,
Rafael

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2017-08-05 12:55 [PATCH 0/4] PM: Replace "freeze" with "s2idle" in item names related to suspend-to-idle Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-08-05 12:56 ` [PATCH 1/4] PM / s2idle: Rename PM_SUSPEND_FREEZE to PM_SUSPEND_S2IDLE Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-08-07  8:49   ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-08-07 11:57     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-08-07 12:00       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-08-05 12:58 ` [PATCH 2/4] PM / s2idle: Rename freeze_state enum and related items Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-08-05 12:59 ` [PATCH 3/4] PM / s2idle: Rename ->enter_freeze to ->enter_s2idle Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-08-05 13:00 ` [PATCH 4/4] PM / s2idle: Rename platform operations structure Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-08-09 22:11 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] PM: Replace "freeze" with "s2idle" in item names related to suspend-to-idle Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-08-09 22:13   ` [PATCH v2 1/4] PM / s2idle: Rename PM_SUSPEND_FREEZE to PM_SUSPEND_TO_IDLE Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-08-09 22:13   ` [PATCH v2 2/4] PM / s2idle: Rename freeze_state enum and related items Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-08-09 22:14   ` [PATCH v2 3/4] PM / s2idle: Rename ->enter_freeze to ->enter_s2idle Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-08-09 22:15   ` [PATCH v2 4/4] PM / s2idle: Rename platform operations structure Rafael J. Wysocki

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