[libvirt] [PATCH 06/14] Rename suspend capabilities APIs

Srivatsa S. Bhat srivatsa.bhat at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Nov 29 16:28:43 UTC 2011


On 11/29/2011 09:53 PM, Eric Blake wrote:

> On 11/29/2011 09:19 AM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
>>>  /**
>>> - * virGetPMCapabilities:
>>> + * virNodeSuspendGetTargetMask:
>>>   *
>>>   * Get the Power Management Capabilities that the host system supports,
>>>   * such as Suspend-to-RAM (S3), Suspend-to-Disk (S4) and Hybrid-Suspend
>>>   * (a combination of S3 and S4).
>>>   *
>>
>>
>> You might want to remove the terminology "S3", "S4" etc from here, perhaps?
> 
> Nah.  While we don't want the public XML or enum names to reflect an
> x86-specific naming convention, there's nothing wrong with internal APIs
> using terminology in comments to make it easier to correlate the generic
> name with the specific feature, so that developers familiar with either
> term can be sure to understand.
> 


Ok, that sounds good. So lets retain it then.

-- 
Regards,
Srivatsa S. Bhat
IBM Linux Technology Center




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