Subject: Re: [v7 PATCH 0/7]: cpuidle/x86/POWER: Cleanup idle power management code in x86, cleanup drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c and introduce cpuidle to POWER.

From: Peter Zijlstra <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:04:39 +0200

On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 22:05 +0530, Arun R Bharadwaj wrote:

> Also, the per-cpu nature of registration/unregistration of cpuidle
> has been maintained as ACPI needs this.

Right, so can't we ditch that and have acpi default to the lowest common
C-state and warn when various cpus report different C-states?