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From: James Kosin <jkosin@beta.intcomgrp.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFD] voltage/current regulator consumer interface
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:00:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49EF30F5.7030108@beta.intcomgrp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090422154920.0dda2380@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

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Alan Cox wrote:
>>> In power management line normally refers to the core, unregulated power
>>> bus for the system and a line supply would normally be something like a
>>> wall wart that supplies this directly when it's connected.
>> Can I suggest:
>> "supply-switch" or "regulator-switch" may make more sense for the moment.
> 
> Can I suggest they don't. The naming should reflect the naming actually
> used in the field by people working on the technology otherwise arbitary
> renaming just creates confusion
> 
> The supply switch is the big switch on the back
> 
> Alan
> 
Ok, "supply-switch" may have been a bad idea, I wasn't thinking yet.
The coffee hasn't kicked in yet and I'm feeling a bit down.

James


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  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-22 15:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <ct38K-3Fq-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
2009-04-20 15:38 ` [RFD] voltage/current regulator consumer interface James Kosin
2009-04-21  6:07   ` Mike Rapoport
2009-04-21 13:25     ` James Kosin
2009-04-21 14:05       ` Mike Rapoport
2009-04-21 14:31         ` James Kosin
2009-04-25  8:19         ` Pavel Machek
2009-04-25  9:04           ` Mark Brown
2009-04-27 13:47             ` James Kosin
2009-04-27 14:21               ` Mark Brown
2009-04-21 14:30       ` Mark Brown
2009-04-21 10:05   ` Mark Brown
     [not found] ` <ct38K-3Fq-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <ctmXD-1yA-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <ctnK4-2zP-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]       ` <ctoG9-458-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]         ` <ctoG9-458-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]           ` <ctoPK-4y5-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]             ` <ctoZv-4KN-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]               ` <ctFxn-5OC-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]                 ` <ctG0r-6HL-31@gated-at.bofh.it>
2009-04-22 14:31                   ` James Kosin
2009-04-22 14:49                     ` Alan Cox
2009-04-22 15:00                       ` James Kosin [this message]
2009-04-20 14:32 Mike Rapoport
2009-04-20 14:56 ` Mark Brown
2009-04-21 12:00   ` Mike Rapoport
2009-04-21 12:55     ` Mark Brown
2009-04-21 13:54       ` Mike Rapoport
2009-04-21 13:56         ` Mark Brown
2009-04-21 14:01           ` Mike Rapoport
2009-04-21 14:14             ` Mark Brown
2009-04-22  7:57               ` Mike Rapoport
2009-04-22  8:26                 ` Mark Brown

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