Re: [PATCH v2 11/11] misc: throttler: Add Chrome OS EC throttler

[Matthias Kaehlcke]

Hi Enric,

On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 04:09:18PM +0200, Enric Balletbo i Serra wrote:

> On 07/06/18 20:12, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> > The driver subscribes to throttling events from the Chrome OS
> > embedded controller and enables/disables system throttling based
> > on these events.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Changes in v2:
> > - added SPDX line instead of license boiler-plate
> > - use macro to avoid splitting line
> > - changed variable name for throttler from 'cte' to 'ce_thr'
> > - formatting fixes
> > - Kconfig: removed odd dashes around 'help'
> > - added 'Reviewed-by' tag
> > 
> > Note: I finally decided to keep 'Chrome OS' instead of changing it
> > to 'ChromeOS'. Both are currently used in the kernel, the latter is
> > currently more prevalent, however the official name is 'Chrome OS',
> > so there is no good reason to keep introducing the 'alternative' name.
> > 
> 
> I am pretty sure that somebody from Google told me the contrary, so
> 
> Â\_(ã)_/Â
> 
> Anyway, you will probably know better than me :)

The different names in the kernel code indicate that even folks at
Google disagree on this ;-) The name might have evolved over time.

chrome://chrome on a Chromebook names it 'Chrome OS', as do official
pages like https://www.google.com/chromebook/ and
https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os so I think it is better to use
this name.

> > +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> 
> Something that I learnt recently. To match the SPDX-license tag you should set
> this to "GPL v2" [1]
> 
>  *	"GPL"				[GNU Public License v2 or later]
>  *	"GPL v2"			[GNU Public License v2]
> 
> [1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.17/source/include/linux/module.h#L172

Will update in the next revision

Thanks!

Matthias