[PATCH v4 3/6] drivers: cpuidle: implement OF based idle states infrastructure

Nicolas Pitre nicolas.pitre at linaro.org
Wed Jun 11 11:38:51 PDT 2014


On Wed, 11 Jun 2014, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:

> On most common ARM systems, the low-power states a CPU can be put into are
> not discoverable in HW and require device tree bindings to describe
> power down suspend operations and idle states parameters.
> 
> In order to enable DT based idle states and configure idle drivers, this
> patch implements the bulk infrastructure required to parse the device tree
> idle states bindings and initialize the corresponding CPUidle driver states
> data.

Oh and another pet peeve of mine: given we always talk about "device 
tree" all the time, could you s/OF/DT/ in the subject?  It's been a 
while that DT has outgrown its OF origins.

>  create mode 100644 drivers/cpuidle/of_idle_states.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/cpuidle/of_idle_states.h

Ditto here, including any new symbols you introduced.

Nicolas



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