[PATCH 0/3] cpu: idle state framework for offline CPUs.

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 10:03 +0530, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote:
> This was the
> main objection to Venki's deepest sleep state for offline cpus patch.

Well, my main objection was that is was a single raw function pointer
without any management layer around it.

We have the exact same mess with the idle routine - and that has bitten
us in the past.