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

Lorenzo Pieralisi lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com
Thu Jun 12 02:19:32 PDT 2014


On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 07:38:51PM +0100, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 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.

Yes you have a point, I will do.

Thanks,
Lorenzo




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