From: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] intel_idle: create a native cpuidle driver for select intel processors
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 10:28:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1275067710.4507.194.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1005272009490.24823@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 20:22 -0400, Len Brown wrote:
> > >> > drivers/idle/intel_idle.c | 446
>
> > >> Any reason this arch-specific driver needs to be in drivers/idle
> > >> instead of under a platform specific dir like arch/x86?
>
> > To me that would be much less convenient as I expect to maintain my
> > platform-specific CPUidle driver along with the rest of my
> > platform-specific code.
>
> I guess the reason is conveneince of the maintainer (me).
OK, fair enough.
At least that makes more sense to me than "keeping all users in one
place."
Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-28 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-27 2:42 idle-test patches queued for upstream Len Brown
2010-05-27 2:42 ` [PATCH 1/8] cpuidle: fail to register if !CONFIG_CPU_IDLE Len Brown
2010-05-27 2:42 ` [PATCH 2/8] cpuidle: add cpuidle_unregister_driver() error check Len Brown
2010-05-27 3:14 ` Andrew Morton
2010-05-27 5:11 ` [PATCH-v2 " Len Brown
2010-05-27 5:13 ` Andrew Morton
2010-05-27 2:42 ` [PATCH 3/8] cpuidle: make cpuidle_curr_driver static Len Brown
2010-05-27 5:27 ` [PATCH-v2 " Len Brown
2010-05-27 18:40 ` Luck, Tony
2010-05-27 23:30 ` Len Brown
2010-05-27 2:42 ` [PATCH 4/8] ACPI: allow a native cpuidle driver to displace ACPI Len Brown
2010-05-27 2:42 ` [PATCH 5/8] sched: clarify commment for TS_POLLING Len Brown
2010-05-27 5:53 ` [PATCH-v2 " Len Brown
2010-05-27 2:42 ` [PATCH 6/8] acpi_pad: uses MONITOR/MWAIT, so it doesn't need to clear TS_POLLING Len Brown
2010-05-27 2:42 ` [PATCH 7/8] ACPI: acpi_idle: touch TS_POLLING only in the non-MWAIT case Len Brown
2010-05-27 2:42 ` [PATCH 8/8] intel_idle: create a native cpuidle driver for select intel processors Len Brown
2010-05-27 3:44 ` Andrew Morton
2010-05-28 3:57 ` Len Brown
2010-05-30 9:20 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-27 8:53 ` [linux-pm] " Thomas Renninger
2010-05-28 1:44 ` Len Brown
2010-05-28 7:46 ` Thomas Renninger
2010-05-28 17:38 ` Len Brown
2010-05-29 4:17 ` Thomas Renninger
2010-05-27 14:14 ` Kevin Hilman
2010-05-27 14:22 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-27 14:36 ` Kevin Hilman
2010-05-28 0:22 ` Len Brown
2010-05-28 17:28 ` Kevin Hilman [this message]
2010-05-27 14:51 ` [linux-pm] " Igor Stoppa
2010-05-28 3:14 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-28 17:27 ` Kevin Hilman
2010-05-29 0:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-28 2:32 ` Chase Douglas
2010-05-28 4:16 ` Len Brown
2010-05-28 15:09 ` Chase Douglas
2010-05-28 17:43 ` Len Brown
2010-05-28 19:51 ` Chase Douglas
2010-05-28 20:14 ` Chase Douglas
2010-05-27 5:25 ` (No subject header) Milton Miller
2010-05-27 5:47 ` Len Brown
2010-05-27 8:45 ` [linux-pm] idle-test patches queued for upstream Thomas Renninger
2010-05-28 0:59 ` Len Brown
2010-05-28 8:07 ` Thomas Renninger
2010-05-28 17:42 ` Len Brown
2010-06-16 7:53 ` Pavel Machek
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