Subject: [PATCH v1 01/10] of: Rename "poweroff-source" property to "system-power-controller"

From: [email-masked] (Johan Hovold)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 17:41:03 +0100

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:38:40AM -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 04:26:46PM +0000, Romain Perier wrote:
> > As discussed on the mailing list, it makes more sense to rename this property
> > to "system-power-controller". 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 prefixed by a vendor name
> > and the new one without any prefix.

> I think you still need to support poweroff-source since it has been
> released on a stable kernel. Perhaps add a warning message telling users
> it's deprecated and asking them to switch over to
> system-power-controller ? Still, simply removing it isn't very nice.

No, Romain sent a patch that replaced "<vendor>,system-power-controller"
with "poweroff-source". It's now in Mark's tree (for v3.19), and this
series "reverts" to the old name minus the vendor-prefix.

Johan