From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: allow module driver to register idle notifier Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:49:23 +0200 Message-ID: <20081021114923.GA28549@elte.hu> References: <1d80ebdb81444701024ad9b9f026516561496a43.1223706853.git.len.brown@intel.com> <20081011083347.GA31918@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:50210 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752794AbYJULti (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:49:38 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Len Brown Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Venki Pallipadi , Andy Henroid , Len Brown , Linus Torvalds , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andi Kleen * Len Brown wrote: > Ingo, > How shall we proceed? > If you take this patch, we can ship a modular i7300_idle driver. > If you do not take this patch, then we'll need to build it into > the kernel and not allow it to un-register. sorry - i got held up with other stuff. Please just commit the export via your tree, we'll sort it out afterwards. Your use of the idle callback certainly looks reasonable for your purposes and the infrastructure was there after all. I dont want to complicate your workflow in any case. Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Ingo