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

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-09T08:22:18Z

On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 04:32:13PM -0700, Kees Cook 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>

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>