Re: [PATCH 2/4] Driver core: Use generic offline/online for CPUoffline/online

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu May 02 2013 - 09:57:55 EST


On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 02:28:19PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Rework the CPU hotplug code in drivers/base/cpu.c to use the
> generic offline/online support introduced previously instead of
> its own CPU-specific code.
>
> For this purpose, modify cpu_subsys to provide offline and online
> callbacks for CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU set and remove the code handling
> the CPU-specific 'online' sysfs attribute.
>
> This modification is not supposed to change the user-observable
> behavior of the kernel (i.e. the 'online' attribute will be present
> in exactly the same place in sysfs and should trigger exactly the
> same actions as before).
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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