Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756942Ab3HMN6Y (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Aug 2013 09:58:24 -0400 Received: from smtp.codeaurora.org ([198.145.11.231]:53603 "EHLO smtp.codeaurora.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757302Ab3HMN6R convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Aug 2013 09:58:17 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwspinlock/msm: Add support for Qualcomm MSM HW Mutex block Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1283) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Kumar Gala In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 08:58:18 -0500 Cc: Grant Likely , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org list" , "linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org" , devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Jeffrey Hugo , Stephen Boyd , Eric Holmberg Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: References: <1375128719-23642-1-git-send-email-galak@codeaurora.org> <20130729214035.GC8868@codeaurora.org> <9EB1A821-7137-4812-B58A-20F669BCA7DD@codeaurora.org> <0A09DA0F-86B4-4961-88E2-64FA0A4D380D@codeaurora.org> <9BC13262-0803-4790-B1B5-0B46F7DB8D30@codeaurora.org> To: Ohad Ben-Cohen X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1283) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1022 Lines: 25 On Aug 13, 2013, at 1:01 AM, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Kumar Gala wrote: >> So I think I'd ask you to recommend a name, should we just us 'hwspinlock'. The general view from ePAPR and dts is the node name should be a bit more generic (like ethernet or pci). So what would you suggest? > > How about 'hwlock' ? > > This should be generic enough to cover all instances of hardware locks > (we already know hwspinlock isn't generic enough, as there are some > mutex-like hardware locks which doesn't require busy looping). hwlock sounds good to me, I'll go with it. - k -- Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/