On 25/08/16 00:44, Daniel Lezcano wrote: > On 08/19/2016 12:26 AM, Gautham R. Shenoy wrote: >> From: "Gautham R. Shenoy" <e...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> >> >> Currently all the idle states registered by a cpu-idle driver are >> enabled by default. This patch adds a mechanism which allows the >> driver to hint if an idle-state should start in a disabled state. The >> cpu-idle core will use this hint to appropriately initialize the >> usage->disable knob of the CPU device idle state. > > Why do you need to do that ? >
I think patch 2/2 explains the reason as it uses this infrastructure Balbir Singh
