[PATCH V7 5/7] POWER/cpuidle: Generic POWER CPUIDLE driver supporting PSERIES.

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Nov 7 16:01:02 EST 2013


On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 09:45 +0530, Deepthi Dharwar wrote:
> 'powerpc' would be very generic arch and would comprise of all platforms
> including embedded 32/64 bit to server 64 bit (similar to that of ARM).
> This driver does not intend to support complete powerpc arch, but just
> PSERIES and POWERNV platforms termed as 'POWER' processors. So to avoid
> confusion btw 'power mgmt' and 'POWER' archs, I have prefixed both the
> driver and file names with 'IBM'namely ibm-power-driver, cpuidle-ibm-power.

Why not book3s ? powerpc-book3s ?

That's what we use in other places to differenciate between the families

Ben.




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