Re: [PATCH v8 0/8] Consolidate cpuidle functionality

Arnd Bergmann [off-list ref] writes:

On Tuesday 20 March 2012, Robert Lee wrote:

quoted

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.
 
Kevin