Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] x86/platform/intel-mid: Add Power Management Unit driver

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* Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 2016-06-14 at 17:29 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> > * Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 2016-06-14 at 12:43 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > In the TRM it's called Power Management Unit, though once or twice
> > > in some 
> > > documents as Power Management Controller. I actually woudn't like to
> > > use PMC 
> > > abbreviation to not be confused with pmc_atom.c and many other
> > > variation of 
> > > existing PMC drivers of other Intel platforms.
> > > 
> > > PM* as a prefix might be too short to conflict with Power Management
> > > framework 
> > > in the kernel. P-Unit (punit*) is existing part in SoC which will
> > > have its own 
> > > driver in the future, so, can't use it either.
> > > 
> > > pwr*, pwrmu*, scpmu* (as of South Complex Power Management Unit) —
> > > one of them?
> > 
> > 'pwr' certainly sounds good to me! PWMU perhaps?
> 
> Wouldn't be a bit confusing with pwm? I would stay at 'pwr'.

Yeah, indeed - so pwr it is?

Thanks,

	Ingo
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