Re: [PATCH 1/5] powernv:idle: Move device-tree parsing to one place.

[Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 7 Jul 2017 16:55:39 +0530
Gautham R Shenoy <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Hello Nicholas,
> 
> On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 12:53:40AM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:

> > I wouldn't have the wrapper function... but it's your code so it's
> > up to you. One thing though is that this function you have called get_
> > just to return the pointer, but it does not take a reference or
> > allocate memory or initialize the structure. Other functions with the
> > same prefix do such things. Can we make something more consistent?  
> 
> I agree with the wrapper function. But then the alternative was to
> declare this variable as an extern so that cpuidle can access it. Is
> that preferable ?

Yeah I think that's fine.

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> > [snip]
> > 
> > There's a lot of code movement, I haven't reviewed it all carefully, but
> > it looks good in general. I'll apply the patches and check the result
> > in the next few days when I get a bit of time.  
> 
> If it helps, I will post the subsequent version breaking this patch
> into smaller ones.

If you could without too much trouble, that would be a good help.

Thanks,
Nick