Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Date | Wed, 8 Jul 2020 13:04:38 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] genpd: Fix up terminology with leader/follower |
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On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 11:04 AM Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 at 10:35, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote: > > > > The genpd infrastructure uses the terms master/slave, but such uses have > > no external exposures (not even in Documentation/driver-api/pm/*) and are > > not mandated by nor associated with any external specifications. Change > > the language used through-out to leader/follower. > > In my opinion this doesn't really make it more clear, but rather the opposite. > > If we should improve, I suggest using "parent" and "child" instead. As > matter of fact, that's already the de-facto terminology that people > are using when talking about master/subdomains of genpd.
IMO "parent" and "child" would be better indeed, because genpd only supports strict hierarchies.
Thanks!
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