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From: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
	Wang Dongsheng <dongsheng.wang@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: warn users of smt-snooze-delay that the API isn't there anymore
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:47:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <530D1D6F.1050603@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <530C21E6.5020106@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On 02/24/2014 08:53 PM, Madhavan Srinivasan wrote:
> On Saturday 22 February 2014 05:44 AM, Cody P Schafer wrote:
>> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/smt-snooze-delay was converted into a NOP
>> in commit 3fa8cad82b94d0bed002571bd246f2299ffc876b, and now does
>> nothing. Add a pr_warn() to convince any users that they should stop
>> using it.
>>
>> The commit message from the removing commit notes that this
>> functionality should move into the cpuidle driver, essentially by
>
> Would prefer to cleanup the code since the functionality is moved,
> instead of adding to it.

We'd still want users of the interface to use an attribute wired up 
under the cpuidle/ dir, so a warning (to update their software) is still 
needed. As deepthi has noted, cpuidle right now doesn't support changing 
this on a per-cpu basis, so a "cleanup" isn't a simple matter.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-25 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-22  0:14 [PATCH] powerpc: warn users of smt-snooze-delay that the API isn't there anymore Cody P Schafer
2014-02-25  4:53 ` Madhavan Srinivasan
2014-02-25 22:47   ` Cody P Schafer [this message]
2014-02-25  7:59 ` Deepthi Dharwar
2014-02-25 22:40   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-02-26  3:45     ` Michael Ellerman

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