On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:38:40AM -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 04:26:46PM +0000, Romain Perier wrote: > > As discussed on the mailing list, it makes more sense to rename this property > > to "system-power-controller". Problem being that the word "source" usually tends > > to be used for inputs and that is out of control of the OS. The poweroff > > capability is an output which simply turns the system-power off. Also, this > > property might be used by drivers which power-off the system and power back on > > subsequent RTC alarms. This seems to suggest to remove "poweroff" from the > > property name and to choose "system-power-controller" as the more generic name. > > This patchs adds the required renaming changes and defines an helper function > > which is compatible with both properties, the old one prefixed by a vendor name > > and the new one without any prefix. > I think you still need to support poweroff-source since it has been > released on a stable kernel. Perhaps add a warning message telling users > it's deprecated and asking them to switch over to > system-power-controller ? Still, simply removing it isn't very nice. No, Romain sent a patch that replaced "<vendor>,system-power-controller" with "poweroff-source". It's now in Mark's tree (for v3.19), and this series "reverts" to the old name minus the vendor-prefix. Johan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tegra" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
