Re: [linux-pm] [RFC 03/15] PM / Hibernate: separate block_io

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu Mar 25 2010 - 16:09:55 EST


On Thursday 25 March 2010, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi again.
>
> On 25/03/10 09:58, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > On 25/03/10 08:22, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> >> On 03/24/2010 09:30 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> >>> On Tue 2010-03-23 17:17:31, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> >>>> +int sws_bio_read_page(pgoff_t page_off, void *addr, struct bio **bio_chain)
> >>>> +{
> >>>> + return submit(READ, sws_resume_bdev, page_off * (PAGE_SIZE>> 9),
> >>>> + virt_to_page(addr), bio_chain);
> >>>> +}
> >>>
> >>> sws_ is kind of strange prefix. We were trying to get away from
> >>> "swsuspend" name for quite some time...
> >>
> >> No problem to change the prefix to anything else. Do you (anybody)
> >> suggest anything?
> >>
> >
> > How about some abbreviation of hibernate? "hib"?
>
> On further reflection, how about "std" (suspend to disk)? I think that's
> less ugly than the 'hib' suggestion :)

But it also decodes as "standard" if someone is not in the right context. :-)

If the "bio" part of the name is not essential (ie. there's no conflicting name
already), we could call it simply hibernate_read_page().

Rafael
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