Re: [PATCH v1 01/10] of: Rename "poweroff-source" property to "system-power-controller"

[Johan Hovold <johan-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:47:41AM -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 05:41:03PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> oh, so poweroff-source isn't in Linus' tree yet ? (/me goes grep)
> 
> Then it should be fine. My bad.
> 
> Many of the other comments are still valid because even though
> poweroff-source isn't in mainline yet, this series still creates
> bisection points which are broken. The best solution would be to drop
> all those patches from Mark's tree. Read, not revert, drop.

I agree.

Johan