Re: [PATCH 1/1 v3] Honor state disabling in the cpuidle ladder governor - with sanitizer

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu Jul 19 2012 - 14:37:22 EST


Hi,

On Thursday, July 19, 2012, Carsten Emde wrote:
> Deepthi,
>
> >>> [..]
> >>>> I could implement a sanitize mechanism of the ladder governor that
> >>>> takes care the "disable" variables of all deeper states are set to 1,
> >>>> if a state is disabled, and those of all lighter states are set to 0,
> >>>> if a state is enabled. Do you wish me to do that?
> >>> No, I dont think thats necessary, current code suffices it.
> >>> The disable flag is knob we are giving to the user . So may be just
> >>> document the intended use of disable flag working
> >>> alongside design of ladder governor.
> >> It's not necessary - but maybe better. Here comes v3 with a sanitizer.
> >> Is this too ugly?
> > The v2, with the documentation in place seems sufficient.
> > Yup, this adds unnecessary fields which are not much use
> > coz the same can be achieved with just disable flag check.
> ok, let's take v2.
>
> > Also, any reason why the patch is being sent as an attachment ?
> > Sending patches as an attachment is not a recommended practice.
> Sorry.

Can you please resend the version regarded as the current one?

And please send it inline this time.

Thanks,
Rafael
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