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From: Rafael J. Wysocki on 25 Mar 2010 16:40
On Thursday 25 March 2010, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On 26/03/10 07:12, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > 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. :-)
>
> Ah...
>
> > 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().
>
> Yeah. So we're going with hibernate or hib_ if it needs abbreviating?

I'd just use "hibernate" without abbreviating if reasonably possible.
We can also use "image_" in some cases I guess.

Rafael
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From: Pavel Machek on 29 Mar 2010 09:40
Hi!

> > > 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. :-)
>

Hmm, and when you are in really wrong context, you get rather nasty
diseases...

std_prepare() seems like rather bad idea :-).
Pavel

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