On Wednesday, March 21, 2012, Amit Kucheria wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Kevin Hilman <khilman@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > >> On Tuesday 20 March 2012, Robert Lee wrote: > >>> This patch series moves various functionality duplicated in platform > >>> cpuidle drivers to the core cpuidle driver. Also, the platform irq > >>> disabling was removed as it appears that all calls into > >>> cpuidle_call_idle will have already called local_irq_disable(). > >>> > >>> These changes have been pulled into linux-next. > >>> > >>> Len, Andrew, can a request be made for Linus to pull these changes? > >> > >> FWIW, Len seems to be rather inactive on the kernel mailing list right > >> now and generally not very interested in anything outside of x86 and > >> acpi. If he doesn't reply in the next few days and Andrew also isn't > >> interested in handling these patches, I'd suggest you just send the pull > >> request to Linus, with Len on Cc and explain that you tried to send > >> them through him but gave up in the end. > > > > FWIW, I have not had good luck getting response for proposed core > > CPUidle changes either: > > > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/9/19/374 > > > > Maybe it's time that drivers/cpuidle gets a maintainer. With lots of > > discussions of scheduler changes that affect load estimation, I suspect > > we're all going to have a bit of CPUidle work to do in the > > not-so-distant future. > > > > I don't mean to be piling on to Len here, but Daniel Lezcano too has a > bunch of clean ups that didn't get any maintainer review for over two > months. He has now refreshed them for 3.3 and is getting ready to send > them out again. We (Linaro) expect to be spending a lot of time on > cpuidle in the future and would be glad to help review, test and > collect patches into a tree for Linus/Andrew to pull while we wait for > Len to respond or another maintainer to emerge. Well, I discussed that before with Arjan and he said he would maintain CPUidle if Len didn't have the time, but it seems he didn't expect that there would be a lot of work on it in the near future. So, I suggest that if neither Len nor Arjan reappear shortly, people can send CPUidle patches to me. Thanks, Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
