Re: [PATCH 01/13] PM: Add wake lock api.

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On Wed 2009-02-11 16:45:46, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Brian Swetland wrote:
> > 
> > > [Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>]
> > > > > 
> > > > > wake_lock never blocks.
> > > > 
> > > > Wakelock is really bad name: it is not a lock and it does not protect
> > > > wake. I'd say we need better name here.
> > > 
> > > I agree with you here -- I've had this discussion with Arve previously,
> > > but have been unable to offer a compelling alternative name.  Anybody
> > > have a good idea?
> 
> Well, even "sleep lock" would have been better.
> 
> > delay_sleep or delaysleep?  block_sleep or blocksleep?  Any of the 
> > above with "sleep" replaced by "suspend"?
> 
> I also thought about "sleep stopper".  It reflects what the feature does. :-)

'caffeine' ? :-).
								Pavel
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