Re: [GIT PULL] ACPI and power management fixes for v3.9-rc1

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Monday, February 25, 2013 09:31:45 PM Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I wonder if this went unnoticed or there's anything wrong with it or it just
> > needs to wait for some more time?
> 
> Just going through things slowly. It's merged in my tree now.

Thanks!

> Oh, and a request: _please_ don't use unknown TLA's like OPP.

Sure, sorry about that.

> This has become a huge problem, to the point that we have a
> "Documentation/power/opp.txt" file THAT NEVER CLEARLY STATES WHAT THE
> F*CK OPP ACTUALLY MEANS! What nice "documentation".

It says that in "Introduction", but it would be clearer if the title of the
doc was something like "Operating Performance Points (OPP) Library".  Nishanth?

> Ok, I can look up things like this and find that it is "Operating
> Performance Points". At least in this context. But no, it's not some
> kind of generic standard, and no, it's not something people should be
> expected to know in general. Please stop doing "explanations" of
> things that use TLA's like this. And people shouldn't have to even
> wonder.

I agree.

Rafael


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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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