From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
axboe@kernel.dk, herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au,
ying.huang@intel.com, lenb@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/8] CPU: Introduce ARCH_HAS_CPU_AUTOPROBE and X86 parts
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:36:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EF26D63.10006@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111221232934.GC23559@kroah.com>
On 12/21/2011 03:29 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 04:32:28PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
>> 2011/12/21 Thomas Renninger<trenn@suse.de>:
>>
>> Cool. That sounds good. Nice work. Thanks.
>>
>> Adding Greg, so he's in the loop.
>>
>> Greg, Andi's upcoming CPU modaliases are temporarily hooked into the
>> 'cpuid' class devices to make them work with userspace, which isn't
>> possible with the weird sysdev stuff.
>>
>> We don't want to depend on the 'cpuid' class, but hook into the real
>> 'cpu' subsystem. This switches them over after we have the
>> sysdev-cpu-conversion stuff merged.
>
> Ok, but what does this mean now for my tree as I've taken your patches?
>
If I understand Kay right it means that once this tree and the patches
from Kay are both upstream we can apply the cleanup patch.
Kay, is that correct?
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-21 23:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-19 23:46 CPUID based driver autoloading v3 Andi Kleen
2011-12-19 23:46 ` [PATCH 1/8] Add driver auto probing for x86 features v2 Andi Kleen
2011-12-20 1:25 ` [tip:x86/autoprobe] x86: Add driver auto probing for x86 features tip-bot for Andi Kleen
2011-12-23 13:16 ` [PATCH 1/8] Add driver auto probing for x86 features v2 Thomas Renninger
2011-12-19 23:46 ` [PATCH 2/8] crypto: Add support for x86 cpuid auto loading for x86 crypto drivers Andi Kleen
2011-12-20 1:26 ` [tip:x86/autoprobe] x86, " tip-bot for Andi Kleen
2011-12-19 23:46 ` [PATCH 3/8] intel-idle: convert to x86_cpu_id auto probing Andi Kleen
2011-12-20 1:27 ` [tip:x86/autoprobe] x86, " tip-bot for Andi Kleen
2011-12-19 23:46 ` [PATCH 4/8] ACPI: Load acpi-cpufreq from processor driver automatically Andi Kleen
2011-12-20 1:28 ` [tip:x86/autoprobe] x86, acpi: " tip-bot for Andi Kleen
2011-12-19 23:46 ` [PATCH 5/8] HWMON: Convert via-cputemp to x86 cpuid autoprobing Andi Kleen
2011-12-20 1:28 ` [tip:x86/autoprobe] x86, hwmon: " tip-bot for Andi Kleen
2011-12-19 23:46 ` [PATCH 6/8] HWMON: Convert coretemp " Andi Kleen
2011-12-20 1:29 ` [tip:x86/autoprobe] x86, hwmon: " tip-bot for Andi Kleen
2011-12-19 23:46 ` [PATCH 7/8] cpufreq: Add support for x86 cpuinfo auto loading v3 Andi Kleen
2011-12-20 1:30 ` [tip:x86/autoprobe] x86, cpufreq: Add support for x86 cpuinfo auto loading tip-bot for Andi Kleen
2011-12-20 10:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-20 18:18 ` Andi Kleen
2011-12-21 11:03 ` [PATCH 7/8] cpufreq: Add support for x86 cpuinfo auto loading v3 Thomas Renninger
2011-12-21 20:12 ` Andi Kleen
2011-12-21 20:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-12-21 21:30 ` Dave Jones
2011-12-22 0:01 ` Andi Kleen
2011-12-22 0:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-12-22 0:14 ` Andi Kleen
2011-12-22 15:29 ` Thomas Renninger
2011-12-22 20:49 ` Andi Kleen
2011-12-22 17:55 ` [PATCH] X86: Introduce HW-Pstate scattered cpuid feature Thomas Renninger
2011-12-19 23:46 ` [PATCH 8/8] x86: autoload microcode driver on Intel and AMD systems Andi Kleen
2011-12-20 1:31 ` [tip:x86/autoprobe] x86: Autoload " tip-bot for Andi Kleen
2011-12-21 15:02 ` [PATCH 9/8] CPU: Introduce ARCH_HAS_CPU_AUTOPROBE and X86 parts Thomas Renninger
2011-12-21 15:32 ` Kay Sievers
2011-12-21 23:29 ` Greg KH
2011-12-21 23:36 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2011-12-21 23:46 ` Kay Sievers
2011-12-21 23:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
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