Subject: Re: [v10 PATCH 9/9]: POWER: Enable default_idle when power_save=off

From: Daniel Walker <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:41:38 -0800

On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 15:33 +0530, Arun R Bharadwaj wrote:
> +int boot_option_idle_override = 0;
> + 

Doesn't need to be set to zero AFAIK, since we do a mass initialization
to zero during boot up. Did you notice some type of failure when you
didn't initialize that to zero?

(checkpatch output below..)
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ERROR: do not initialise externals to 0 or NULL
#97: FILE: arch/powerpc/kernel/idle.c:43:
+int boot_option_idle_override = 0;

total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 0 checks, 31 lines checked

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