From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
To: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Romain Perier <romain.perier@gmail.com>,
heiko@sntech.de, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, broonie@kernel.org,
lgirdwood@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
grant.likely@linaro.org, robh@kernel.org, mark.rutland@arm.com,
johan@kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux@roeck-us.net,
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linux@arm.linux.org.uk, swarren@wwwdotorg.org,
thierry.reding@gmail.com, gnurou@gmail.com,
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linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 01/10] of: Rename "poweroff-source" property to "system-power-controller"
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 17:41:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141027164103.GD2006@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141027163840.GA14253@saruman>
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:38:40AM -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 04:26:46PM +0000, Romain Perier wrote:
> > As discussed on the mailing list, it makes more sense to rename this property
> > to "system-power-controller". Problem being that the word "source" usually tends
> > to be used for inputs and that is out of control of the OS. The poweroff
> > capability is an output which simply turns the system-power off. Also, this
> > property might be used by drivers which power-off the system and power back on
> > subsequent RTC alarms. This seems to suggest to remove "poweroff" from the
> > property name and to choose "system-power-controller" as the more generic name.
> > This patchs adds the required renaming changes and defines an helper function
> > which is compatible with both properties, the old one prefixed by a vendor name
> > and the new one without any prefix.
> I think you still need to support poweroff-source since it has been
> released on a stable kernel. Perhaps add a warning message telling users
> it's deprecated and asking them to switch over to
> system-power-controller ? Still, simply removing it isn't very nice.
No, Romain sent a patch that replaced "<vendor>,system-power-controller"
with "poweroff-source". It's now in Mark's tree (for v3.19), and this
series "reverts" to the old name minus the vendor-prefix.
Johan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-27 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-27 16:26 [PATCH v1 01/10] of: Rename "poweroff-source" property to "system-power-controller" Romain Perier
2014-10-27 16:26 ` [PATCH v1 02/10] dt-bindings: Document the standard property "system-power-controller" Romain Perier
[not found] ` <1414427215-14380-2-git-send-email-romain.perier-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-10-27 16:39 ` Felipe Balbi
2014-10-27 17:26 ` Mark Brown
2014-10-27 17:30 ` Felipe Balbi
2014-10-27 17:57 ` Mark Brown
2014-10-28 7:25 ` Romain Perier
2014-10-27 16:26 ` [PATCH v1 03/10] regulator: act8865: Use of_is_system_power_controller helper function Romain Perier
[not found] ` <1414427215-14380-3-git-send-email-romain.perier-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-10-27 16:40 ` Felipe Balbi
2014-10-27 17:03 ` Heiko Stübner
2014-10-27 16:26 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] ARM: dts: rockchip: Enable power off in pmic for Radxa Rock Romain Perier
2014-10-27 16:26 ` [PATCH v1 05/10] dt-bindings: act8865: Update documentation about property system-power-controller Romain Perier
2014-10-27 16:26 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] mfd: tps65910: Use the standard DT " Romain Perier
[not found] ` <1414427215-14380-6-git-send-email-romain.perier-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-10-27 16:35 ` Lucas Stach
2014-10-27 16:41 ` Felipe Balbi
2014-10-27 16:43 ` Johan Hovold
2014-10-27 16:53 ` Romain Perier
2014-10-27 16:49 ` Heiko Stübner
2014-10-27 16:49 ` Felipe Balbi
2014-10-27 16:41 ` Felipe Balbi
2014-10-27 16:26 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] ARM: dts: tegra: Use standard power-off property in tps65911 for tegra30 apalis Romain Perier
[not found] ` <1414427215-14380-7-git-send-email-romain.perier-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-10-27 16:42 ` Felipe Balbi
2014-10-28 4:34 ` Alexandre Courbot
2014-10-28 6:47 ` Romain Perier
2014-10-27 16:26 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] ARM: dts: tegra: Use standard power-off property in tps65911 for tegra30 beaver Romain Perier
2014-10-27 16:42 ` Felipe Balbi
2014-10-27 16:26 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] ARM: dts: tegra: Use standard power-off property in tps65911 for tegra30 cardhu Romain Perier
2014-10-27 16:26 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] ARM: dts: tegra: Use standard power-off property in tps65911 for tegra30 colibri Romain Perier
2014-10-27 16:38 ` [PATCH v1 01/10] of: Rename "poweroff-source" property to "system-power-controller" Felipe Balbi
2014-10-27 16:41 ` Johan Hovold [this message]
2014-10-27 16:47 ` Felipe Balbi
2014-10-27 17:02 ` Johan Hovold
2014-10-27 17:05 ` Heiko Stübner
2014-10-27 17:08 ` Felipe Balbi
2014-10-27 17:16 ` Johan Hovold
2014-10-27 18:16 ` Romain Perier
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