From: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>, Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>,
Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>,
MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com>,
linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] PM: Introduce generic DVFS framework with device-specific OPPs
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:36:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110427133637.GA25850@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110426205430.GA20381@suse.de>
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 01:54:30PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:45:18PM +0800, Jiejing.Zhang wrote:
> > I think DVFS here means ???Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling???,?? refering the
> > first google's result:
> Ok, if so, please spell it out.
> Also, don't use 'dvfs' as a prefix in the kernel, too many other people
> will think it is a filesystem. How about "dynvolt"?
> Or anything else, just no 'fs' in the name otherwise confusion will
> reign.
This really is the standard technical term for this, it's vanishingly
rare for it to be a source of confusion in context. We should at least
mention the actual term in the documentation even if we invent our own
name for it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-27 13:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-26 8:43 [RFC PATCH] PM: Introduce generic DVFS framework with device-specific OPPs MyungJoo Ham
2011-04-26 11:09 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-04-27 5:22 ` MyungJoo Ham
2011-04-27 13:46 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-04-28 6:54 ` MyungJoo Ham
2011-04-28 19:19 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-04-27 17:49 ` Colin Cross
2011-04-27 18:07 ` Menon, Nishanth
2011-04-27 18:34 ` Mark Brown
2011-04-27 18:45 ` Colin Cross
2011-04-27 18:58 ` Mark Brown
[not found] ` <BANLkTin4rrniJpOheLH=JE0jq7vFpdDbrA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-04-27 18:29 ` Colin Cross
[not found] ` <BANLkTi=WWASxk3Fz83324k40Lbq+ccAPeA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-04-27 18:37 ` Colin Cross
2011-04-27 18:48 ` Menon, Nishanth
[not found] ` <BANLkTikEtTDp3Cpj0D5z34wA0_G_DWwKFg@mail.gmail.com>
2011-04-27 18:54 ` Colin Cross
2011-04-27 19:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
[not found] ` <alpine.LFD.2.02.1104272104390.3323@ionos>
2011-04-27 20:48 ` Colin Cross
[not found] ` <BANLkTinWD0ktYKzR_jnQSE76AuW+Z1PSLw@mail.gmail.com>
2011-04-28 6:12 ` MyungJoo Ham
[not found] ` <BANLkTi=Be3DrAUoPmgHpjhAVmN-Pi5Au7g@mail.gmail.com>
2011-04-28 6:44 ` Colin Cross
[not found] ` <BANLkTiniJUgTTDh7SF8yNMeSMa+JYM21wA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-04-28 6:50 ` MyungJoo Ham
[not found] ` <BANLkTimzWyvcBV2ymxaMf=HmRhGYBboB1w@mail.gmail.com>
2011-04-28 7:06 ` Colin Cross
[not found] ` <BANLkTik6L8HkJ0YjQYjh_3eEmbffyk1kRA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-04-28 7:34 ` MyungJoo Ham
2011-04-28 12:19 ` Mark Brown
[not found] ` <BANLkTinP0_qpF3sp8CzDy42i24wqqo7ohw@mail.gmail.com>
2011-04-28 5:59 ` MyungJoo Ham
[not found] ` <BANLkTin-OMyrz=McN6X4TAZrvv3ehVBGew@mail.gmail.com>
2011-04-28 6:43 ` Colin Cross
[not found] ` <BANLkTikVHs1n8fXEAZh6Q4io39eD9PG14w@mail.gmail.com>
2011-04-28 7:16 ` MyungJoo Ham
2011-04-27 19:00 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-04-26 13:22 ` Greg KH
2011-04-26 14:45 ` Jiejing.Zhang
2011-04-26 20:54 ` Greg KH
2011-04-27 5:33 ` MyungJoo Ham
2011-04-27 13:49 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-04-27 13:36 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2011-04-26 19:45 ` Pavel Machek
2011-04-26 15:07 ` Mark Brown
2011-04-27 5:24 ` MyungJoo Ham
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