Re: [PATCH 01/13] PM: Add wake lock api.

Pavel Machek
2009-02-08T22:57:00Z

On Wed 2009-02-11 16:45:46, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Brian Swetland wrote:
> >
> > > [Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]
> > > > >
> > > > > wake_lock never blocks.
> > > >
> > > > Wakelock is really bad name: it is not a lock and it does not protect
> > > > wake. I'd say we need better name here.
> > >
> > > I agree with you here -- I've had this discussion with Arve previously,
> > > but have been unable to offer a compelling alternative name. Anybody
> > > have a good idea?
>
> Well, even "sleep lock" would have been better.
>
> > delay_sleep or delaysleep? block_sleep or blocksleep? Any of the
> > above with "sleep" replaced by "suspend"?
>
> I also thought about "sleep stopper". It reflects what the feature does. :-)

'caffeine' ? :-).
Pavel
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