From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Deepthi Dharwar Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/8] Consolidate cpuidle functionality Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:08:41 +0530 Message-ID: <4F693F31.6030309@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <1332274969-15782-1-git-send-email-rob.lee@linaro.org> <873992zy5u.fsf@ti.com> <201203210101.08361.rjw@sisk.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <201203210101.08361.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-sh-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Amit Kucheria , Kevin Hilman , Arnd Bergmann , Robert Lee , len.brown@intel.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, robherring2@gmail.com, Baohua.Song@csr.com, nicolas.ferre@atmel.com, linux@maxim.org.za, kgene.kim@samsung.com, amit.kachhap@linaro.org, magnus.damm@gmail.com, nsekhar@ti.com, daniel.lezcano@linaro.org, mturquette@linaro.org, vincent.guittot@linaro.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org, patches@linaro.org, broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com, nicolas.pitre@linaro.org, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, jean.pihet@newoldbits.com, venki@google.com, ccross@google.com, g.trinabh@gmail.com, kernel@wantstofly.org, lethal@linux-sh.org, jon-hunter@ti.com, tony@atomide.com, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.orglinux- List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org On 03/21/2012 05:31 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Wednesday, March 21, 2012, Amit Kucheria wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Kevin Hilman wrote: >>> Arnd Bergmann writes: >>> >>>> On Tuesday 20 March 2012, Robert Lee wrote: >>>>> This patch series moves various functionality duplicated in platform >>>>> cpuidle drivers to the core cpuidle driver. Also, the platform irq >>>>> disabling was removed as it appears that all calls into >>>>> cpuidle_call_idle will have already called local_irq_disable(). >>>>> >>>>> These changes have been pulled into linux-next. >>>>> >>>>> Len, Andrew, can a request be made for Linus to pull these changes? >>>> >>>> FWIW, Len seems to be rather inactive on the kernel mailing list right >>>> now and generally not very interested in anything outside of x86 and >>>> acpi. If he doesn't reply in the next few days and Andrew also isn't >>>> interested in handling these patches, I'd suggest you just send the pull >>>> request to Linus, with Len on Cc and explain that you tried to send >>>> them through him but gave up in the end. >>> >>> FWIW, I have not had good luck getting response for proposed core >>> CPUidle changes either: >>> >>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/9/19/374 >>> >>> Maybe it's time that drivers/cpuidle gets a maintainer. With lots of >>> discussions of scheduler changes that affect load estimation, I suspect >>> we're all going to have a bit of CPUidle work to do in the >>> not-so-distant future. >>> >> >> I don't mean to be piling on to Len here, but Daniel Lezcano too has a >> bunch of clean ups that didn't get any maintainer review for over two >> months. He has now refreshed them for 3.3 and is getting ready to send >> them out again. We (Linaro) expect to be spending a lot of time on >> cpuidle in the future and would be glad to help review, test and >> collect patches into a tree for Linus/Andrew to pull while we wait for >> Len to respond or another maintainer to emerge. > > Well, I discussed that before with Arjan and he said he would maintain > CPUidle if Len didn't have the time, but it seems he didn't expect that > there would be a lot of work on it in the near future. > > So, I suggest that if neither Len nor Arjan reappear shortly, people can > send CPUidle patches to me. > > Thanks, > Rafael > I'll be glad to assist you in this. Cheers, Deepthi