Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752951AbaKXM6y (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Nov 2014 07:58:54 -0500 Received: from mail-qc0-f181.google.com ([209.85.216.181]:56019 "EHLO mail-qc0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752754AbaKXM6v (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Nov 2014 07:58:51 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20141124113518.GC6875@localhost> References: <1415885699-1465-1-git-send-email-user@radxa> <1415885699-1465-2-git-send-email-user@radxa> <20141121105951.GA20679@localhost> <20141124102456.GE4241@x1> <20141124113518.GC6875@localhost> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 13:58:50 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] of: Rename "poweroff-source" property to "system-power-controller" From: Romain Perier To: Johan Hovold Cc: Lee Jones , Mark Brown , =?UTF-8?Q?Heiko_St=C3=BCbner?= , Grant Likely , robh , devicetree , Liam Girdwood , Mark Rutland , "linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Felipe Balbi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 2014-11-24 12:35 GMT+01:00 Johan Hovold : > On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:24:56AM +0000, Lee Jones wrote: >> On Fri, 21 Nov 2014, Johan Hovold wrote: >> > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 01:34:58PM +0000, Auto Configured wrote: >> > > From: Romain Perier >> > > >> > > It reverts commit a4b4e0461ec5 ("of: Add standard property for poweroff capability"). >> > > As discussed on the mailing list, it makes more sense to rename back to the >> > > old established property name, without the vendor prefix. Problem being that >> > > the word "source" usually tends to be used for inputs and that is out of control >> > > of the OS. The poweroff capability is an output which simply turns the >> > > system-power off. Also, this property might be used by drivers which power-off >> > > the system and power back on subsequent RTC alarms. This seems to suggest to >> > > remove "poweroff" from the property name and to choose "system-power-controller" >> > > as the more generic name. This patchs adds the required renaming changes and >> > > defines an helper function which is compatible with both properties, the old one >> > > which was only used by tps65910 and the new one without vendor-prefix. >> > >> > Now this is a bit of a mess. >> > >> > There's a commit in the mfd tree, 25f833c1171d ("mfd: tps65910: Convert >> > ti,system-power-controller DT property to poweroff-source"), which >> > breaks all dts using tps65910 since these are never updated to the now >> > retracted property name ("poweroff-source"). >> >> My word! >> >> Romain, what conversation on the MLs are you talking about? > > I think Romain is referring to this thread: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/23/161 Yes, this is this one. > >> > This one should simply be reverted ASAP. >> >> No need to revert, I can just remove the patch from the MFD tree. > > Ok, good. Then this is limited to the regulator tree, and we could > proceed as I outlined below. > > > Romain, care to resend this patch without the tps65910 chunks? If you can just drop the patch from mfd tree Lee, please do. Yes Johan, np, what I want is that we find a smart solution, nothing more. > > You should also fix the commit message, which claims to define a "helper > function which is compatible with both properties", something which was > no longer the case. > > Thanks, > Johan So I need to resend this patch which would only introduce an helper function which checks for "system-power-controller" property (it would also have a new commit message). As you suggested, this helper might be named "of_device_is_system_power_controller" ? Everything is okay ? Romain -- 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/