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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:02:17 +0530
From: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [v2 PATCH 2/2]: pseries: Implement Pseries Processor Idle idle
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* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> [2009-08-26 13:27:18]:

> On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 16:40 +0530, Arun R Bharadwaj wrote:
> > +void (*pm_idle)(void);
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pm_idle);
> 
> Seriously.. this caused plenty problems over on x86 and you're doing the
> exact same dumb thing?
> 

Hi Peter,

Cpuidle assumes pm_idle to be the default idle power management
function. So i should either do this, or change the stuff in cpuidle.c
so that it is more abstract.

--arun