Re: [v7 PATCH 0/7]: cpuidle/x86/POWER: Cleanup idle powermanagement code in x86, cleanup drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c and introducecpuidle to POWER.

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 17:17 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote:

> > The objective of the refactoring is to have a single common idle
> > routine management framework (remove pm_idle) and we have it done
> > through cpuidle registration framework.  We can incrementally remove
> > the per-cpu registration later easily by splitting the cpuidle_driver
> > structure.
> >
> 
> Yes, incremental refactoring makes the most sense from the do not
> break as you refactor point of view.

Sure,.. but I would have though getting rid of the per-cpu-ish-ness
would have made the latter patches in this series easier. But maybe I'm
lazy ;-)

Let me go over the patches one more time, but they do look ok.


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