Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Use per cpuidle_device states

[Peter De Schrijver <pdeschrijver@nvidia.com>]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:19:15PM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 07/27/2012 01:28 PM, Peter De Schrijver wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:45:57PM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> >> Since commit 46bcfad7a819bd17ac4e831b04405152d59784ab,
> >>         cpuidle: Single/Global registration of idle states
> >>
> >> we have a single registration for the cpuidle states which makes
> >> sense. But now two new architectures are coming: tegra3 and big.LITTLE.
> >>
> >> These architectures have different cpus with different caracteristics
> >> for power saving. High load => powerfull processors, idle => small processors.
> >>
> >> That implies different cpu latencies.
> >>
> >> This patchset present a simple way to keep the current behavior as introduced
> >> by Deepthi without breaking the drivers and add the possibility to specify a
> >> per cpu states.
> >>
> > Looks good! I will do some tests with this next week.
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> shall I consider adding your acked-by ?
> 

You can. I don't see any problem with the code as such (besides the race).

> Did you have time to test the patchset ?
> 

I haven't had time no :( I was on holiday most of august and had some other
things to take care of last week :(. Working on it now.

Cheers,

Peter.