[PATCH v2 0/4] PM: Replace "freeze" with "s2idle" in item names related to suspend-to-idle

From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
To: Linux PM <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux ACPI <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>,
	Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>,
	Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/4] PM: Replace "freeze" with "s2idle" in item names related to suspend-to-idle
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:11:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4362123.MquenKSW7f@aspire.rjw.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1912685.WjJGzNPQ5e@aspire.rjw.lan>

On Saturday, August 5, 2017 2:55:34 PM CEST Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 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.

The v2 addresses the comment from Peter that PM_SUSPEND_S2IDLE had too many
"suspends" in it, so it is now replaced with PM_SUSPEND_TO_IDLE.  No other
changes.

Thanks,
Rafael