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

Alan Stern
2009-02-11T22:05:09Z

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Pavel Machek wrote:

> On Wed 2009-02-11 09:58:23, 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?
> >
> > delay_sleep or delaysleep? block_sleep or blocksleep? Any of the
> > above with "sleep" replaced by "suspend"?
>
> Actually "sleep_veto" sounded best.

I don't like it quite as much because these things don't _veto_ a
sleep, they only delay it. But that's a minor point.

Alan Stern