From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932834Ab0E1R2r (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2010 13:28:47 -0400 Received: from mail-pw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:32976 "EHLO mail-pw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755474Ab0E1R2p (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2010 13:28:45 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] intel_idle: create a native cpuidle driver for select intel processors From: Kevin Hilman To: Len Brown Cc: Arjan van de Ven , x86@kernel.org, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <1274928151-30919-1-git-send-email-lenb@kernel.org> <198450ec1600d9a7f55270dd4d44d6b55bc5b184.1274926772.git.len.brown@intel.com> <87ljb5l9d5.fsf@deeprootsystems.com> <20100527072207.2e783b1e@infradead.org> <87ocg1jts7.fsf@deeprootsystems.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Organization: Deep Root Systems, LLC Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 10:28:30 -0700 Message-ID: <1275067710.4507.194.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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