From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kevin Hilman Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:37:39 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] PM / Domains: Rename struct dev_power_domain to struct dev_pm_domain Message-Id: <87fwn45b24.fsf@ti.com> List-Id: References: <201106112223.04972.rjw@sisk.pl> <201106112226.07631.rjw@sisk.pl> In-Reply-To: <201106112226.07631.rjw@sisk.pl> (Rafael J. Wysocki's message of "Sat, 11 Jun 2011 22:26:07 +0200") MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Linux PM mailing list , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Magnus Damm , Paul Walmsley , Alan Stern , LKML , linux-sh@vger.kernel.org "Rafael J. Wysocki" writes: > From: Rafael J. Wysocki > > The naming convention used by commit 7538e3db6e015e890825fbd9f86599b > (PM: Add support for device power domains), which introduced the > struct dev_power_domain type for representing device power domains, > evidently confuses some developers who tend to think that objects > of this type must correspond to "power domains" as defined by > hardware, which is not the case. Namely, at the kernel level, a > struct dev_power_domain object can represent arbitrary set of devices > that are mutually dependent power management-wise and need not belong > to one hardware power domain. To avoid that confusion, rename struct > dev_power_domain to struct dev_pm_domain and rename the related > pointers in struct device and struct pm_clk_notifier_block from > pwr_domain to pm_domain. > > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Acked-by: Kevin Hilman Thanks! Kevin