From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 00:48:09 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] Re: 2.5.69 process.c: cpu_idle() cleanup Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On 12 May 2003 20:41:03 -0400, Jes Sorensen said: >>>>> "David" = David Mosberger writes: David> Is this a real need or is this just something hypothetical? David> If the latter, I'd rather leave what's there now. Jes> The problem with the current code is that it doesn't work for Jes> generic kernels and for the SN2 we really like to have this Jes> feature in place. The PROM allows you to go in and look at the Jes> led status even if the kernel has hung. Jes> The other reason was that I was trying to get rid of SN Jes> specific features from generic files and having a more generic Jes> API for this seemed useful to me. Jes> So to answer your question, yes I think there is a real use for Jes> this. OK, I can probably live with that argument. However, let's make it a platform vector then (which I was opposed to back when) and make it a single function (e.g., "mark_idle"), which takes an "idleness" argument. --david