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

Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-02-11T15:45:46Z

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. :-)

Thanks,
Rafael