Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Jul 2015 10:45:07 +0100 | From | Russell King - ARM Linux <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] arm: kernel: implement cpuidle_ops with psci backend |
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On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 10:16:02AM +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote: > Yes, I would only ask you, if the plan above (which can be implemented > in two steps) makes sense to you please consider accepting Mark's change > to consolidate PSCI code into drivers/firmware/psci, it is a stepping stone > without which the changes above can't happen, I will take charge of completing > the move of CPUidle code and create the required shim layer into > drivers to make this happen.
Why can't Jisheng Zhang base his patches on top of Mark's changes and place the new file directly under drivers/ ?
Why do it as a two-step process with it first appearing in arch/arm, and then having to generate another patch at a later date to move it elsewhere. That just creates more noise, and we should be avoiding generating noise in arch/arm.
This is what Linus has said in his -rc4 release notes yesterday:
Other than that issue, it's mostly drivers and networking. USB, gpu, mmc, network drivers, sound. With some ARM noise (but even that is mostly driver-related: dts updates due to MMC fixes). And a few small filesystem fixes.
and we can infer from the phrase "ARM noise" that Linus' opinion of arch/arm is still fairly low, and still doesn't regard the "churn" in arch/arm as being useful.
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