Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 May 2010 17:38:52 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 8/8] intel_idle: create a native cpuidle driver for select intel processors |
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On Fri, 28 May 2010 10:27:32 -0700 Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 20:14 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Thu, 27 May 2010 17:51:00 +0300 > > Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@nokia.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > ext Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > > > > it's really inconvenient to have such drivers hidden in the > > > > architecture code; it's much more convenient for cpuidle > > > > developers if they're all in one place. > > > > > > > > > > why? > > > > because you have all the users of your API in one place. > > > > That's a rather x86-centric definition of "all". > > Are you suggesting we move all the embedded SoC specific CPUidle > drivers to drivers/idle as well?
yes.
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