Re: [PATCH V3 09/10] cpufreq: cpu0: rename driver and internals to 'cpufreq_generic'

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On Tuesday, September 09, 2014 01:39:32 AM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday, September 08, 2014 04:18:11 PM Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > On 09/08/14 16:34, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > On Thursday, August 28, 2014 11:22:31 AM Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > >> The naming convention of this driver was always under the scanner, people
> > >> complained that it should have a more generic name than cpu0, as it manages all
> > >> CPUs that are sharing clock lines.
> > >>
> > >> Also, in future it will be modified to support any number of clusters with
> > >> separate clock/voltage lines.
> > >>
> > >> Lets rename it to 'cpufreq_generic' from 'cpufreq_cpu0'.
> > > I'm not a big fan of changes like this to be honest, because they kind of
> > > hide history.  For example, if you do a "git blame" on the new file, it will
> > > show your commit and nothing before it.
> > 
> > Sounds like a tooling problem. But git blame doesn't have that behavior
> > so there isn't actually any problem?
> 
> Ah, OK
> 
> It used to some time ago or maybe it depends on how you carry out the rename.

So more bikeshedding. :-)

Isn't "generic" somewhat too broad?  Surely it doesn't cover x86.  And does
it actually cover anything without clocks/regulators?

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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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