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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com>
Cc: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>, Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@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 15:49:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201104271549.28802.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTik=zr7cHCFnAyyDmDLcrUjhYpuGtA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wednesday, April 27, 2011, MyungJoo Ham wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 5:54 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:45:18PM +0800, Jiejing.Zhang  wrote:
> >> Hi Greg,
> >>
> >> I think DVFS here means “Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling”,  refering the
> >> first google's result:
> >
> > Ok, if so, please spell it out.
> 
> Yes, will do so.
> 
> >
> > 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.
> 
> Um... ok... I'll avoid using fs as postfix and think about the name again.
> "oppfreq", "devfreq", "dvfscale", "oppscale", "devscale", "ddp
> (dynamic device power)", or "dfvs" (switched frequency and voltage to
> avoid confusion with file systems).

I think devfreq is the best one of the above.  At least it will make everyone
think that the feature is analogous to cpufreq, which is correct.

Thanks,
Rafael
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-27 13:49 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
     [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
2011-04-27 18:34       ` Mark Brown
2011-04-27 18:45         ` Colin Cross
2011-04-27 18:58           ` Mark Brown
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 [this message]
2011-04-27 13:36       ` Mark Brown
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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