Re: [PATCH v2] genpd: Fix up terminology with parent/child

Kevin Hilman
2020-07-10T16:41:43Z

Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> writes:

> On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 at 14:25, Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 1:32 AM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > The genpd infrastructure uses the terms master/slave, but such uses have
>> > no external exposures (not even in Documentation/driver-api/pm/*) and are
>> > not mandated by nor associated with any external specifications. Change
>> > the language used through-out to parent/child.
>> >
>> > There was one possible exception in the debugfs node
>> > "pm_genpd/pm_genpd_summary" but its path has no hits outside of the
>> > kernel itself when performing a code search[1], and it seems even this
>> > single usage has been non-functional since it was introduced due to a
>> > typo in the Python ("apend" instead of correct "append"). Fix the typo
>> > while we're at it.
>> >
>> > [1] https://codesearch.debian.net/
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>>
>> Applied as 5.9 material with a minor subject edit, thanks!
>
> If not too late, feel free to add my ack to the patch.

And mine too.

Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>