Re: [PATCH 3/7] idle, thermal, acpi: Remove home grown idle implementations

Arjan van de Ven
2013-11-20T16:40:53Z

On 11/20/2013 8:04 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> This does not fully preseve existing behaviour in that the generic
> idle cycle function calls into the normal cpuidle governed idle
> routines and should thus respect things like QoS parameters and the
> like.

NAK on the powerclamp side.

powerclamp MUST NOT do that....
it is needed to go to the deepest state no matter what
(this is for when your system is overheating. there is not a lot of choice
here... alternative is an emergency reset that the hardware does for safety)