On Saturday, August 5, 2017 2:55:34 PM CEST Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > The term "suspend-to-idle" (and its short form "s2idle") was invented after > introducing support for the system state it refers to. At that time, the > feature was called "freeze", kind of for the lack of a better idea how to > call it. > > It would not be a problem if it wasn't confusing, but alas it is. The word > "freeze" is quite heavily loaded in the PM terminology. It is related to > the freezing of tasks, the freezing of filesystems (which isn't only used > for PM for that matter), and one of the phases of handling devices during > hibernation (and during resume from it) is called "freeze", which is reflected > in the names of PM callbacks used by it. > > To avoid that confusion, the following patches change the names of various > items related to suspend-to-idle by replacing the word "freeze" in them > with "s2idle". > > The series is on top of current linux-next. The v2 addresses the comment from Peter that PM_SUSPEND_S2IDLE had too many "suspends" in it, so it is now replaced with PM_SUSPEND_TO_IDLE. No other changes. Thanks, Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
