[PATCH v8 0/8] Consolidate cpuidle functionality

On 03/21/2012 05:31 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

On Wednesday, March 21, 2012, Amit Kucheria wrote:

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On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Kevin Hilman [off-list ref] wrote:

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Arnd Bergmann [off-list ref] writes:

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On Tuesday 20 March 2012, Robert Lee wrote:

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This patch series moves various functionality duplicated in platform
cpuidle drivers to the core cpuidle driver. Also, the platform irq
disabling was removed as it appears that all calls into
cpuidle_call_idle will have already called local_irq_disable().

These changes have been pulled into linux-next.

Len, Andrew, can a request be made for Linus to pull these changes?

FWIW, Len seems to be rather inactive on the kernel mailing list right
now and generally not very interested in anything outside of x86 and
acpi. If he doesn't reply in the next few days and Andrew also isn't
interested in handling these patches, I'd suggest you just send the pull
request to Linus, with Len on Cc and explain that you tried to send
them through him but gave up in the end.

FWIW, I have not had good luck getting response for proposed core
CPUidle changes either:

       http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/9/19/374

Maybe it's time that drivers/cpuidle gets a maintainer.  With lots of
discussions of scheduler changes that affect load estimation, I suspect
we're all going to have a bit of CPUidle work to do in the
not-so-distant future.

I don't mean to be piling on to Len here, but Daniel Lezcano too has a
bunch of clean ups that didn't get any maintainer review for over two
months. He has now refreshed them for 3.3 and is getting ready to send
them out again. We (Linaro) expect to be spending a lot of time on
cpuidle in the future and would be glad to help review, test and
collect patches into a tree for Linus/Andrew to pull while we wait for
Len to respond or another maintainer to emerge.

Well, I discussed that before with Arjan and he said he would maintain
CPUidle if Len didn't have the time, but it seems he didn't expect that
there would be a lot of work on it in the near future.

So, I suggest that if neither Len nor Arjan reappear shortly, people can
send CPUidle patches to me.

Thanks,
Rafael

I'll be glad to assist you in this.

Cheers,
Deepthi