[PATCH] pmdomain: Rename the genpd subsystem to pmdomain

Heiko Stuebner heiko at sntech.de
Wed Sep 13 01:03:10 PDT 2023


Am Mittwoch, 13. September 2023, 00:11:27 CEST schrieb Ulf Hansson:
> It has been pointed out that naming a subsystem "genpd" isn't very
> self-explanatory and the acronym itself that means Generic Power Domain, is
> known only by a limited group of people.
> 
> In a way to improve the situation, let's rename the subsystem to pmdomain,
> which ideally should indicate that this is about so called Power Domains or
> "PM domains" as we often also use within the Linux Kernel terminology.
> 
> Suggested-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael at kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson at linaro.org>

yeah the new name sounds better and also doing it now is probably
way nicer than later:

Acked-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko at sntech.de>





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