On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezc...@linaro.org> wrote: > > Catalin, Rob, > > do you agree with this patchset ?
There's very little to do with DT, but looks fine to me. Rob > > Thanks > -- Daniel > > > On 03/03/2015 01:29 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote: >> >> There is a big number of cpuidle drivers for the ARM architecture. >> >> These drivers have been cleaned up and grouped into the drivers/cpuidle >> directory to keep track of the changes more easily and ensure the code >> is following the same scheme across the drivers. >> >> That had the benefit of simplifying the code and factor out a lot of >> common >> parts. Beside that, as the drivers belong to the 'drivers' directory, we >> had >> to split the arch specific bits and the generic code in order to keep >> everything self contained. The platform driver paradigm was used for this >> purpose. >> >> Unfortunately, this approach is now no longer accepted and a different >> solution >> must be provided to reach the same goal: one example is the Qualcomm >> cpuidle >> driver upstreaming attempt [1]. >> >> In the meantime, ARM64 developed a generic cpuidle driver based on DT >> definition. >> >> The DT definition provides an 'enable-method' to specify one of the cpu >> operations (PSCI, ...). >> >> This patchset unify this driver with ARM32, using the same DT definition. >> >> Thanks with this patchset we can use the 'enable-method' to specify a cpu >> operations, hence get rid of the platform driver approach and go further >> in the >> cpuidle driver flexibility via the DT. >> >> Daniel Lezcano (6): >> ARM: cpuidle: Remove duplicate header inclusion >> ARM: cpuidle: Add a cpuidle ops structure to be used for DT >> ARM64: cpuidle: Replace cpu_suspend by the common ARM/ARM64 function >> ARM64: cpuidle: Rename cpu_init_idle to a common function name >> ARM64: cpuidle: Remove arm64 reference >> ARM: cpuidle: Enable the ARM64 driver for both ARM32/ARM64 >> >> arch/arm/include/asm/cpuidle.h | 12 +++ >> arch/arm/include/asm/cpuidle_ops.h | 3 + >> arch/arm/kernel/cpuidle.c | 87 >> +++++++++++++++++++++- >> arch/arm/mach-davinci/cpuidle.c | 1 - >> arch/arm/mach-imx/cpuidle-imx6q.c | 1 - >> arch/arm/mach-imx/cpuidle-imx6sl.c | 1 - >> arch/arm/mach-imx/cpuidle-imx6sx.c | 1 - >> arch/arm/mach-omap2/cpuidle44xx.c | 1 - >> arch/arm/mach-tegra/cpuidle-tegra20.c | 1 - >> arch/arm/mach-tegra/cpuidle-tegra30.c | 1 - >> arch/arm64/include/asm/cpuidle.h | 9 ++- >> arch/arm64/kernel/cpuidle.c | 2 +- >> drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig | 7 +- >> drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig.arm | 10 +++ >> drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig.arm64 | 13 ---- >> drivers/cpuidle/Makefile | 5 +- >> drivers/cpuidle/{cpuidle-arm64.c => cpuidle-arm.c} | 38 +++++----- >> drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-at91.c | 1 - >> drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-exynos.c | 1 - >> drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-kirkwood.c | 1 - >> drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-ux500.c | 1 - >> drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-zynq.c | 1 - >> 22 files changed, 139 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-) >> create mode 100644 arch/arm/include/asm/cpuidle_ops.h >> delete mode 100644 drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig.arm64 >> rename drivers/cpuidle/{cpuidle-arm64.c => cpuidle-arm.c} (72%) >> > > > -- > <http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs > > Follow Linaro: <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linaro> Facebook | > <http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg> Twitter | > <http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog/> Blog > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/