[linux-pm] [PATCH] opp: introduce library for device-specific OPPs

Rafael J. Wysocki rjw at sisk.pl
Fri Sep 17 18:52:21 EDT 2010


On Saturday, September 18, 2010, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> Rafael J. Wysocki had written, on 09/17/2010 05:22 PM, the following:
> > On Friday, September 17, 2010, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> >> Mark Brown had written, on 09/17/2010 10:36 AM, the following:
> >>> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 08:29:33PM -0500, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> +struct opp_def {
> >>>> +	unsigned long freq;
> >>>> +	unsigned long u_volt;
> >>>> +
> >>>> +	bool enabled;
> >>>> +};
> >>> It might be clearer to use some term other than enabled in the code -
> >>> when reading I wasn't immediately sure if enabled meant that it was
> >>> available to be selected or if it was the active operating point.  How
> >>> about 'allowed' (though I'm not 100% happy with that)?
> >> ;).. The opp is enabled or disabled if it is populated, it is implicit 
> >> as being available but not enabled- how about active? this would change 
> >> the opp_enable/disable functions to opp_activate, opp_deactivate..
> > 
> > Would that mean that "active" is the one currently in use?
> 
> I like the idea Phil pointed out[1] on using "available" instead.. 
> opp_enable and disable will make the OPP available or not. does this 
> sound better?

Yes, it does.

Rafael



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