[PATCH 0/3] Add generic idle notifiers

Kevin Hilman khilman at ti.com
Thu Jul 7 13:05:10 EDT 2011


Todd Poynor <toddpoynor at google.com> writes:

> Add notifiers for idle entry and exit, called with IDLE_START when a
> CPU goes idle and IDLE_END when it goes out of idle, based on the
> existing idle notifiers for the x86_64 arch.
>
> Convert x86_64 to use these notifiers, and call the notifiers on ARM.
>
> Convert the ARM LEDs events for idle start/end to these notifiers.

Is this intended to replace the more general CPU PM notifiers proposed
by Colin:

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2011-June/052827.html

Kevin



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