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[PATCH v2 0/4] PM: Replace "freeze" with "s2idle" in item names related to suspend-to-idle

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On Saturday, August 5, 2017 2:55:34 PM CEST Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> The term "suspend-to-idle" (and its short form "s2idle") was invented after
> introducing support for the system state it refers to.  At that time, the
> feature was called "freeze", kind of for the lack of a better idea how to
> call it.
> 
> It would not be a problem if it wasn't confusing, but alas it is.  The word
> "freeze" is quite heavily loaded in the PM terminology.  It is related to
> the freezing of tasks, the freezing of filesystems (which isn't only used
> for PM for that matter), and one of the phases of handling devices during
> hibernation (and during resume from it) is called "freeze", which is reflected
> in the names of PM callbacks used by it.
> 
> To avoid that confusion, the following patches change the names of various
> items related to suspend-to-idle by replacing the word "freeze" in them
> with "s2idle".
> 
> The series is on top of current linux-next.

The v2 addresses the comment from Peter that PM_SUSPEND_S2IDLE had too many
"suspends" in it, so it is now replaced with PM_SUSPEND_TO_IDLE.  No other
changes.

Thanks,
Rafael

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[PATCH 0/4] PM: Replace "freeze" with "s2idle" in item names related to suspend-to-idle "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2017-08-05 15:10 +0200
  [PATCH 1/4] PM / s2idle: Rename PM_SUSPEND_FREEZE to PM_SUSPEND_S2IDLE "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2017-08-05 15:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/4] PM / s2idle: Rename PM_SUSPEND_FREEZE to  PM_SUSPEND_S2IDLE Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-08-07 11:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 1/4] PM / s2idle: Rename PM_SUSPEND_FREEZE to PM_SUSPEND_S2IDLE "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2017-08-07 14:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 1/4] PM / s2idle: Rename PM_SUSPEND_FREEZE to PM_SUSPEND_S2IDLE "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2017-08-07 14:10 +0200
  [PATCH 4/4] PM / s2idle: Rename platform operations structure "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2017-08-05 15:10 +0200
  [PATCH 2/4] PM / s2idle: Rename freeze_state enum and related items "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2017-08-05 15:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3/4] PM / s2idle: Rename ->enter_freeze to ->enter_s2idle "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2017-08-05 15:20 +0200
  [PATCH v2 1/4] PM / s2idle: Rename PM_SUSPEND_FREEZE to PM_SUSPEND_TO_IDLE "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2017-08-10 00:30 +0200
  [PATCH v2 0/4] PM: Replace "freeze" with "s2idle" in item names related to suspend-to-idle "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2017-08-10 00:30 +0200
    [PATCH v2 3/4] PM / s2idle: Rename ->enter_freeze to ->enter_s2idle "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2017-08-10 00:30 +0200
    [PATCH v2 4/4] PM / s2idle: Rename platform operations structure "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2017-08-10 00:30 +0200
    [PATCH v2 2/4] PM / s2idle: Rename freeze_state enum and related items "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2017-08-10 00:30 +0200

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