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Subject: Re: [v7 PATCH 0/7]: cpuidle/x86/POWER: Cleanup idle power
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On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 22:05 +0530, Arun R Bharadwaj wrote:

> Also, the per-cpu nature of registration/unregistration of cpuidle
> has been maintained as ACPI needs this.

Right, so can't we ditch that and have acpi default to the lowest common
C-state and warn when various cpus report different C-states?