On Mon, 18 Nov 2019, Qais Yousef wrote:
> I had to make an educated guess that you're probably the 'maintainer' of cpu
> hotplug - but there's no explicit entry that says that. Please let me know if
> I need to bring the attention of others too.
:)
> The series do have few rough edges to address, but it's relatively
> straightforward and I think does offer a nice improvement in the form of
> consolidating the API for bringing up/down cpus from external
> subsystems/drivers. Beside fix the inconsistency of device's core view of the
> state of the cpu which can happen when cpu_{up/down} are called directly.
>
> The downside I see is that the external API to bring cpus up/down for
> suspend/resume and at boot seem to have grown a bit organically (I've added
> a couple in this series to address 2 direct users of cpu_{up,down}). We might
> need to rethink this API, but I think this is outside the scope of this
> series.
>
> Any thoughts/feedback would be appreciated.
Let me have a look.
