Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] cpuidle/powernv: cpuidle backend driver for powernv

From: Deepthi Dharwar <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 15:28:49 +0530

On 07/23/2013 07:36 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 02:31:41PM +0530, Deepthi Dharwar wrote:
>> This patch implements a back-end cpuidle driver for
>> powernv calling power7_nap and snooze idle states.
>> This can be extended by adding more idle states
>> in the future to the existing framework.
> 
> Other than the state table and a few minor details this looks almost
> identical to the pseries driver. Can we not have a single version in
> sysdev and isolate just the differences?
>

Hi Michael,

Yes, I was actually looking at consolidating and moving all the powerpc
cpuidle driver code to drivers/cpuidle/. sysdev also seems fine. Let me
redo and club the drivers and have a single version of the code in
sysdev for both powerpc and powernv platforms.

Thanks !
Deepthi

> cheers