[PATCHv2 12/17] cpuidle: mvebu: make the cpuidle driver capable of handling multiple SoCs

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Jul 21 05:38:13 PDT 2014


Dear Daniel Lezcano,

On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 14:34:23 +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:

> So there are three solutions:
> 
> 1. Pass the flag through the platform data, I am not really in favor of 
> that as mentioned above

That's what is already implemented.

> 
> 2. Use the compatible string like the cpuidle-big-little.c driver, but 
> Arnd is not in favor of that
> 
> 3. Register 3 platform drivers, in cpuidle-mvebu-v7.c, and let the 
> registering of the cpuidle's platform device to enable the right one

I'm fine with doing (3). Daniel, Arnd, let me know if that's ok for
you, and I'll respin the patch series accordingly.

Thanks,

Thomas
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