Re: OPP: rename functions? (was [PATCH] OPP: Export opp_add())

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Wed Aug 07 2013 - 18:43:32 EST


On Wednesday, August 07, 2013 10:48:54 AM Nishanth Menon wrote:
> Rafael,
> offline question:

Not really offline. :-)

> On 08/06/2013 09:15 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Tuesday, August 06, 2013 08:08:20 AM Nishanth Menon wrote:
> >> change in subject to reflect new discussion.
> >>
> >> On 05:53-20130806, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> >>> On 08/03/2013 02:25 AM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
>
> >>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(opp_add);
> >>>
> >>> Could it be renamed to pm_opp_add() or power_opp_add() ?
> >>> The name is a bit too unspecific IMO.
> >> Though this has nothing specific with this patch, an interesting point.
> >>
> >> git grep -w opp . showed drivers/tty/n_tty.c,
> >> drivers/sbus/char/openprom.c and arch/powerpc/kvm/mpic.c using
> >> variables named opp to mean what ever they had in context. rest(around
> >> 40 odd files) seem to use opp as in Documentation/power/opp.txt..
> >>
> >> We could go with a pm_ prefix or even dev_pm_opp_ prefix to be more
> >> specific, though I prefer just pm_. If Rafael and others are ok, I can
> >> post a series out.
> >
> > Yup, that would be useful. I'm for dev_pm_opp_ if that matters.
>
> Given that there would be quiet a few conflicts, do you have a
> suggestion around what baseline I should submit this?

Well, ideally, on top of 3.12-rc1 when it's out and put it into linux-next
right after that.

Thanks,
Rafael

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