[v7 PATCH 0/7]: cpuidle/x86/POWER: Cleanup idle power management code in x86, cleanup drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c and introduce cpuidle to POWER.
Peter Zijlstra
a.p.zijlstra at chello.nl
Thu Oct 8 00:24:17 EST 2009
On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 17:17 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote:
> > The objective of the refactoring is to have a single common idle
> > routine management framework (remove pm_idle) and we have it done
> > through cpuidle registration framework. We can incrementally remove
> > the per-cpu registration later easily by splitting the cpuidle_driver
> > structure.
> >
>
> Yes, incremental refactoring makes the most sense from the do not
> break as you refactor point of view.
Sure,.. but I would have though getting rid of the per-cpu-ish-ness
would have made the latter patches in this series easier. But maybe I'm
lazy ;-)
Let me go over the patches one more time, but they do look ok.
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