On 03/21/2012 05:31 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > 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 > I'll be glad to assist you in this. Cheers, Deepthi -- 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
