From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752581AbdHIWYb (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2017 18:24:31 -0400 Received: from cloudserver094114.home.net.pl ([79.96.170.134]:44378 "EHLO cloudserver094114.home.net.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752401AbdHIWYG (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2017 18:24:06 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Linux PM Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , LKML , Linux ACPI , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , Srinivas Pandruvada , Jacob Pan , Len Brown , Daniel Lezcano 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 Message-ID: <4362123.MquenKSW7f@aspire.rjw.lan> In-Reply-To: <1912685.WjJGzNPQ5e@aspire.rjw.lan> References: <1912685.WjJGzNPQ5e@aspire.rjw.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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