Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:28:56 -0800 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] ACPI and power management fixes for v3.9-rc1 | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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Ugh. Forgot to actually add the ODD people to the list...
Linus
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com> wrote: >> On 16:55-20130226, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >>> >>> It says that in "Introduction", but it would be clearer if the title of the >>> doc was something like "Operating Performance Points (OPP) Library". Nishanth? >> >> Yes indeed. Will the following help? I can post it as an official patch >> if the direction is proper > > Yes, this will definitely help. I didn't even find it in the > introduction (Rafael is correct that it is indeed there), because it's > hard to see when you don't know what to scan for and it's in a big > block of text. > > I am also happy to note that it is in the Kconfig help and single-line > description. Which wasn't true for the new SATA_ZPODD ("Zero Power > ODD" - what the heck is ODD?) which was another new entry I wondered > about. > > It turns out that ODD is an odd TLA for "Optical Disk Drive". I'm sure > it makes perfect sense if you are a SATA person, but it sure doesn't > for any normal human being, even otherwise highly technical ones. > > Aaron, Tejun, Jeff, can I ask you to also not use specialized TLA's > without explaining them? Especially in help text and "documentation", > it's very unhelpful to have TLA's that aren't common. > > We don't have to explain *all* TLA's, since there's a lot that really > are rather widespread. But there's a big difference between something > like CPU or TLB that have been in generic literature for decades, wrt > OPP and ODD that are specialized terms used inside a very particular > group and haven't been around for very long either. > > Linus
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